NEWPORT BEACH — Newport Beach resident Beata Mansfield has always loved animals and as a young woman dreamed of the day she could sit in her rocking chair and listen to a canary sing playfully to her.

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.

The first few weeks of life are especially perilous for shorebird chicks. Only about a quarter of Red Knot chicks live long enough to journey south. - [Announcer] For the Red Knot chicks, the first ...