Western scrub jays are not particularly friendly birds, but when they spot a fallen comrade, they hold screeching "funerals" for as long as a half-hour, a new study shows. Researcher Teresa Iglesias, ...

For those who've never heard a peacock screech, it's an ear-splitting sound that can be heard at least a half-mile away (some say a mile. They start screeching in sets of five to seven creeches at a ...

[Andrew] has enjoyed the company of [Pepper] the parrot for more than a decade, but the screeching of a bird in the next room is something you just don’t get used to. [Pepper] gets very lonely some ...

It was a magical time in my backyard for two weeks this past summer. One August morning I walked out the back door just at dawn to meet a friend for a “beat the heat” walk, when suddenly two birds ...

It’s good to have a goal ― even if it’s screeching like a seagull. And that was the aim of the Fifth Annual European Gull Screeching Championship, which attracted 60 seagull soundalikes from 14 ...

Black woodpeckers in Poland are elusive and have rarely been filmed. A pair of these large, imposing birds make a home in a beech tree, where they feed their hungry chicks. - [Narrator] In the dark ...