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

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 ...

We become desensitized to the common sounds around us—car alarms, chattering squirrels, the mechanical functions of modern living kicking on and off throughout the day. If you had asked me a week ago ...

I’m not a bird watcher, but I’ve become a bird listener ever since downloading a bionic ear app to my phone. It lets me enter a different world, one where I’m surrounded not just by chirping but by ...

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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 ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual citizen-science project that gathers data about wild birds. Participants go outside for at least 15 minutes and identify as many birds as they can. If you ...