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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Samuel Henderson, a 10 year-old who can imitate a number of bird calls with surprising accuracy. In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can ...

Sometimes I catch myself classifying birds into two categories: fancy and regular. Shame on me. This is a bad attitude, because all birds are gorgeous little creatures. But I fear, after all these ...

A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near them. Scientists have long ...

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 ...