University of Michigan study finds noise harms birds' health in many ways, including their ability to reproduce ...

Jackdaw chicks learn about predators by listening to adults, reveals new research. Scientists played recordings of predator calls to chicks in their nests – and paired the sounds with either adult ...

Survival in the wild usually comes with a steep learning curve. For young birds, that curve can be especially brutal. If you don’t know what a hawk sounds like before you leave the nest, your first ...

Of nine different behavioral or fitness-related responses in 160 bird species examined, noise pollution had negative impacts on eight of them.

Pollution can take many forms--including noise. Excess noise in the environment from sources such as traffic can have negative effects on animals that rely on sound to communicate and get information ...

It's hard to be a bird in our human-dominated world. You can barely hear yourself sing, let along hear the songs of your friends… and you can forget about hearing a predator. Noise is almost ...

Australian magpies have made themselves at home in human cities, but that doesn’t mean that urban environments are free of challenges. New research suggests that human noise pollution affects the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new University of Michigan study shows noise pollution isn't just an annoyance; it may be harming wild birds. A duck stands in ...