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.

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Will Ferrell in the 'More Cowbell' sketch on 'Saturday Night Live'; Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult ...

The cowbell. The hit song, a latter-day bit of psychedelia, infamously had a repeated cowbell on the track. In the sketch, which of course anyone reading this has seen, Christopher Walken‘s ...

It had that hollow sound of a woodblock, whereas a cowbell has a really shrill metal top-end sound.” Meanwhile, Bouchard admits that the SNL sketch really isn’t all that far off from how the ...

There is a whole lot of cowbell, and that is fitting, because this is January. And that means cyclocross. And in my mind, cyclocross means cowbells. I just spent every morning in the week leading up ...

you need to download the company’s free iOS app (Android availability is coming this year). The SONU app uses your iPhone’s camera to scan your facial geometry, which helps tailor the sound ...

A Co Tyrone farmer’s cow has stunned locals by giving birth to rare triplet calves, affectionately named Uno, Dos and Tres, defying odds of one in 100,000. Kieran O’Neill, a dairy farmer from ...

Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents ...