In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

Scientists discovered that scissor-tailed nightjars create strange courtship sounds by snapping the bones in their wings ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...