Birds. Beautiful creatures and apt for metaphors. That’s why the animals have over the years been excellent subjects for rock songs. Whether used as euphemisms for the fairer sex, for hopes and dreams ...

Just in time for spring, a new children’s book celebrates a blind girl’s joy in identifying birds on a nature walk with her aunt. Here & Now ’s Deepa Fernandes takes us on a bird-listening journey ...

Song allows the bird to "speak" better than and other family of creatures. It is the perfect medium for communicating over long distances, or when it is hard to see the singer - and the audience: for ...

I was out back early this morning, drinking coffee and recording the morning chorus of bird songs with Merlin, the Cornell Lab birding App. There is a feature in Merlin called Sound ID that listens to ...

Back in the day, we did not have an app that could tell us what birds we were hearing. Now we have Merlin from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Press “record” on this free app, and it listens to ...

Bird watchers, rejoice! From now on, ecologists will be able to track rare birds by their songs, thanks to a new deep-learning AI tool. Scientists have created a new AI that generates lifelike bird ...