In Takoma Park, Md., an old phone box has been transformed into an art piece that visitors can use to dial up birdsong. What do you do with a payphone now that payphones are getting phased out? Takoma ...

A bird that sounds like a horse? Or how about a wild laugh overheard at a cocktail party? The owner of these unusual sounds is an 8-inch secretive marsh bird called a “sora.” Because I work at ...