In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The results of the study have been used, among others, in the "Muuttolintujen kevät ...

Bird ringing, essential to bird conservation, is an informational process as individual birds are studied. The most critical use of bird ringing results from recovering previously banded birds. Bird ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...

I’m not a bird watcher, but I’ve become a bird listener ever since downloading a bionic ear app to my phone. It lets me enter a different world, one where I’m surrounded not just by chirping but by ...

BirdLife Malta on Monday strongly condemned the Maltese Prime Minister's decision to weaken the laws regulating scientific bird ringing in a clear step to pacify the hunters' lobby and to disguise ...

BirdLife Malta says changes to bird ringing rules will allow trappers to be “easily declared as scientific bird ringers,” a move they called “obscene”. The bird conservation group said this was “a ...

THE banding or ringing of birds is now accepted as the established technique for elucidating migratory and other movements, and Mr. H. F. Witherby and the British Birds scheme are to be congratulated ...