Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer. As a city kid, many people find it hard to believe that I love nature. I guess it’s ...

Researchers working in the Amazon recently recorded the world’s loudest bird, the white bellbird, and it sounds like a klaxon you’d hear aboard a spaceship during battle. And while the white ...

Biologists report that they have recorded the loudest bird calls ever documented, made by dove-sized male white bellbirds as part of their mating rituals in the mountains of the northern Amazon.