The kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, was once deemed a biological paradox – too heavy, too slow, and too appealing ...

West Lafayette-based music group Whirly Birds reflects on their evolution as a band and professes their love for house shows and the do-it-yourself music scene.

With a distinctive sound that resists categorization, Grammy Award-nominated violinist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist ...

Pesquet's parrot may not sound dramatic at first glance, but this parrot from the island of New Guinea, encompassing Papua New Guinea and parts of Indonesia, is also known as the Dracula parrot. One ...

'We don’t have the Eiffel Tower or the pyramids, but we do have kakapo," says New Zealand Department of Conservation’s Deidre ...

The whinny is an unusual combination of both high and low pitched sounds, like a cross between a grunt and a squeal — that come out at the same time.

Bird returns to his third solo album for a sprawling box set and orchestra tour, unpacking the world inside the songs, the world it ...

A horse’s whinny is an iconic sound, arguably on par with a cow’s moo and a sheep’s baa and a donkey’s hee-haw. Most people can immediately recognize a horse’s signature sound, so it might come as a ...

As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe ...

C utting about the tropical wetlands of South America is a bizarre bird that’s a “unicorn” amongst its peers in more than one sense of the word. Like the mythical creature, it has a “horn” on its head ...