Kasha Breau stood at the edge of a pond deep within Gay City State Park in Hebron and gave an eerie, muted trill that echoed in the cold night air. For a few moments, the only thing that could be ...

It’s difficult to ID Eastern and Western screech-owl species—location is your best bet. Hear their call and learn about their ...

The western screech owl makes a call that doesn’t align with the bird’s name, sounding more like what local birder Nic Korte calls a “bouncing ball trill.” But while the little owl, which Korte says ...

There is a new field of ecology, called soundscape or acoustic ecology, in which researchers collect acoustic data from the wild and use this information to better understand an ecosystem. For example ...

Like any good German shepherd, my dog Bella sleeps with one eye and both ears open. And so, when she went ballistic at 3:30 a.m. a few nights ago, I let her go outside to bark out the alarm. But up ...

This column first appeared in the York Weekly on April 8, 2015. There is a new field of ecology, called soundscape or acoustic ecology, in which researchers collect acoustic data from the wild and use ...