While the average Hackaday reader might not be able to take part in data gathering in an isolated wilderness somewhere, we are all surrounded by bird life. Using an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense and ...

Hundreds of bird enthusiasts will take to the Irish countryside over the next two months to count all the birds they can see ...

Isn’t it wonderful to hear the birds singing? Being immersed in their springtime symphony makes you feel good to be alive, ...

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

You could focus on melodic or musical sounds like a bird tweet, and we should try and get rhythmic sounds, like taps and knocks so that I can try and create a beat. And we could also add ambient ...

Listen to the songs and calls of the most common garden birds in the UK and get tips on how to learn to recognise these familiar sounds. Bird song is probably the most familiar type of bird sound.

For example, a song with a heavy metal title is really elevator music, or, after a few seconds of the original music, random noise, speech or even cuckoo clock sounds are heard until the end of ...

Generally shy and elusive, the yellow-billed cuckoo can be easily overlooked. Its calls are usually loud and often provide the best evidence to the presence of the bird. It favors eating ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the care and feeding of its offspring, the common cuckoo outsources. When she’s ready to lay an egg, a female ...