From mimicking car alarms to weaving mossy decoys, birds are finding ingenious ways to survive in a human-dominated world. Some shift their songs higher to cut through traffic noise, while others ...

UC Santa Cruz’s Forest Fear Lab reveals how the dense upper story of the Amazon carries the cries of frightened birds to ...

Humans are a noisy species. Think about our amplified music, our cars and trucks, construction equipment, chainsaws, aircraft, wind farms and snowmobiles. There is no doubt that humans alter the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The bluebird didn’t realize what she was getting herself into when she chose her new home, about 75 yards from a natural gas compressor. It was only as the ...

Researchers warn that noise pollution is causing chronic stress in birds and that it negatively impacts their health. The study, which was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Animals That React Instantly to Predator Presence—and What It Reveals ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Australian magpies have made themselves at home in human cities, but that doesn’t mean that urban environments are free of challenges. New research suggests that human noise pollution affects the ...

Birds are swooping in to steal tens of thousands of fish from Connecticut’s taxpayer-funded hatcheries every year and state workers are shooting down dozens of these feathered predators to try and ...