The rapid drumming of the pileated woodpecker can be heard throughout much of the United States and Canada. Its call is a loud cuk-cuk-cuk, which rises and falls in pitch and volume. Listen for the ...

Now that summer is winding down and temperatures have begun to moderate, it’s a joy to sleep with a cool, gentle breeze wafting through open windows. The sounds of nature make a perfect lullaby. The ...

I enjoy the insect chorus heard through our open windows, and late-summer evenings are best. The populations for many of the music producers are at their peak. The activity of the nighttime singing ...

Something Wild fan, Michael Carrier, wrote in recently, he said “If possible could you do a program about identifying some of the more common sounds you hear at dusk or night in New Hampshire.” Yeah, ...

NHPR is celebrating 25 years of Something Wild by playing some of our favorite shows from the archives. You'll want to listen to this show, produced by Andrew Parrella in August 2017. Something Wild ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

Some tree crickets amplify their calls with leaves, giving them an opportunity to mate that they otherwise might miss. By Katherine J. Wu For better or for worse, female tree crickets tend to ...

Some people go through life never knowing what a katydid is, or what kind of bug makes which sound, when, and for what reason. These people would probably think it frivolous to identify the species of ...