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Some birdsongs are more pleasing to human ears than others. Higher-pitched, complex calls tend to sound more beautiful to us

Do you have a favorite birdsong? Other people might share the same one. Certain acoustic features of their tweets strike a ...

Hear Birds Again: For those who have stopped hearing bird calls

Due to overusing my ears when I was young, my hearing has dropped significantly, and on top of that, due to age-related high-frequency attenuation, it currently gets unreliable from 5kHz and is almost ...