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 ...

More than 20 species of bird around the world use a similar “whining” alarm call to warn birds like cuckoos are around. The call seems to be understood across species, and its specific use hints at ...

A superb fairy-wren calls to a Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo. Brood parasites like cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave them behind for the host birds to raise. David Ongley / Cornell Lab of ...