Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People love to say "kids say the darndest things," but in my opinion, it's actually parrots. They say lots of normal things, like ...

Cruz is a legend for this.

Recorded by Myles E.W. North for the Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University. [Intro. by A.A. Allen].. Songs and calls of 42 species found in Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, South ...

His impressions are the best!

Mozambique, southern Africa, are known to cooperate with birds to find beehives. The vocalizations used by these honey hunters and birds to communicate have regional 'dialects,' revealing that these ...

Parrots remain the most well-known talkers in the bird world. Still, they’re not alone. A handful of other species can copy words and everyday sounds with surprising realism, sometimes matching ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.