An American robin, with its bright red breast, is a common backyard bird. Learn what a robin looks like, sounds like, and see ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

We do not expect to hear it said but a man mentioned he had heard his first robin. But of course, we hear birds more often than we see them. A sound, a bird’s call, is as accurate a confirmation, ...