The BirdNET app, a free machine-learning powered tool that can identify over 3,000 birds by sound alone, generates reliable scientific data and makes it easier for people to contribute citizen-science ...

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

I don t know exactly how I knew, but I thought, falcon! I looked up and darn if there wasn t one perched high on an alcove of the Griest Building. I would never had seen the rare sight without my ears ...

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

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 ...

Each spring I wake to the sound of a bird purring in my neighbor’s trees. Now, I know birds don’t purr, but that’s the best word I could come up with to describe the sound. It wasn’t chirping. It didn ...

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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 was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was ...

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Copyright of bird-song recordings held by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics. Booklet entitled, "Birding by ear : a guide ...

Heather Wolf earned a degree in sociology at U.C.L.A., then spent six years playing electric bass in a travelling band. She earned a master’s degree in information science, moved to Brooklyn, and ...