An interesting story for those like me that occasionally took a lonely drive around an airfield with a tape player sounding out distress calls, shotgun and very pistol. The bird control unit (BCU) ...

This October, nine government employees will be patrolling North Dakota’s sunflower fields using every possible means to scare birds. The agents from USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection ...

Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...

Every year in the days leading up to New Year’s Eve and the Fourth of July, Floridians get very concerned about scaring birds away from their fish hatcheries. So much so that thousands of them send ...

Birds don't just sing for beauty, their voices carry messages, warnings, and even regional dialects that reveal a hidden world of communication. Bird sounds offer insight into how intelligent and ...

Birds threatened by a predator often call out to encourage other birds to make noise and fly about, repelling the attacker as part of a “mobbing flock”. Now, researchers have found that male lyrebirds ...