Birding by ear can be difficult, which is why some enthusiasts come up with tricks for remembering those tweets. Bird call mnemonics (pronounced nuh-ma-niks) are phrases or words assigned to a bird's ...

In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can hear all kinds of bird calls, people sharing recordings of birds that they took with their phones. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

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.