You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls ...

Listening to one-minute-long audio recordings of forest soundscapes has positive effects on people’s short-term wellbeing, new research finds. Improvements to wellbeing were found to be more ...

Is that the tweet of a titmouse? Or the chirp of a chickadee? After you download the Merlin Bird ID app, you can use your smartphone to identify sounds and match them to the birds in trees nearby and ...

If you’ve ever heard a bird and wondered what it was, the free Merlin Bird ID app for iPhone offers one of the easiest ways ...

ADRIAN WOLF: The Swainson's thrush. It's a lovely, ethereal sound. (SOUNDBITE OF SWAINSON'S THRUSH CALL) WOLF: Yeah, it's beautiful. SUMMERS: Adrian Wolf knows birds. He once studied a threatened ...

Hungry deer in the northeastern U. S. are likely changing the acoustics of their forests by eating up bushes, small trees and other leafy plants that normally would affect the transmission of natural ...

You walk alone through a foggy forest with nothing but your day bag and binoculars. Birds and insects call quietly as they fly above and creep below. Suddenly, you hear a piercing, metallic alarm like ...

The chirping and calls of birds in the canopy above might be exactly what allows you to relax. But what sounds soothing to ...