Heard a chirp or spotted a flutter? These free apps identify backyard birds by sight or sound — no binoculars or in-depth ...

A Sarasota-based electronics company named after a breed of sea turtle has developed an electronic listening device that – when combined with an artificial intelligence database developed by Cornell ...

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The ...

If you follow NPR on Instagram, which we hope you do - we're just @npr - you may have seen a video we shared over the weekend of someone whose backyard was absolutely loaded with birds. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Next to insects, birds sadly seem to get short shrift from humans. We remain powerfully drawn to scenes of lions hunting in the Kalahari desert or rhinos jousting in eastern India, but remain mostly ...

From casual bird buddies to ornithology obsessives, you can now trek to far flung corners of the globe and identify any feathered friend you find – as long as you have a smartphone. The hugely popular ...