Why birds and their songs have mental health benefits

Interesting! Thanks for sharing this.

I live in the city but am near a brook. I hear so many birds! This time of year, with my windows open and my head close to it while in bed I enjoy them a great deal.

my 20yo loves that app too.

Funny, I was in my therapists office last week and heard a lovely bird chirping away and I commented to her and she said it is part of a noise machine she uses. It was very soothing, but uplifting.

It's 8am on a Saturday morning here in Australia and I am currently sitting in my study/craft room listening to the birds outside my window. One of the reasons we love where we live is because we live at the end of a cul-de sac which are becoming rare so we have very few cars passing us.
We live in suburbia but in the foothills and our native Australian birds are just beautiful to listen to. We are about to put out a birdbox because we have some birds that come and nest each year and sometimes they make their nests in unsafe places.
We have kookaburras, possums and yes koalas in our yard at times too! 
I am making a conscious effort to de- stress my life so we have started walking around a local dam in the evening and that is so relaxing, listening to the birds, saying hi to all the other walkers and kids fishing.

I might try and see if there is an app for Australian birds.
We have lyre birds who mimic not only other birds but things like car doors slamming, chainsaws, camera shutter and crying babies!!

Just a few days ago my son mentioned he heard a new sounding bird that has been waking him up, but has no idea what it is. I will share the link you shared and the app that was mentioned with him. Thank you!

     Thank you so much for sharing this app. I live in a very old neighborhood (over 100 years old) that sits on a peninsula that juts out into the Chesapeake Bay. We've been here for over 27 years and just happened to buy our house at the right time-it was luck. One of the many things we love about this neighborhood is that it is filled with mature trees-we have 4 or 5 of these trees in our backyard and we have a 150 year old oak tree in the front yard that sits over the driveway. Don't really love that one as it drops it's acorns on my 24 year old Honda (good thing it's an old car) in the fall and is currently dropping sap on it. But it is a gorgeous tree. They actually moved the house plans back to save that tree when they built it. 

Every late afternoon I sit in my backyard to smoke my MM (medical marijuana) and the air is filled with birdsong. I am so grateful to live where we do. I've always wondered which birds make which songs and now with this app I can start learning the answers. I borrowed a book on Mid-Atlantic birds from my local library to identify them. In the winter, actually from fall through the spring, we have Tundra swans that migrate from the Arctic tundra of Canada and Alaska to the shallow waters of the Bay. We are extremely lucky to have a community beach and they are so beautiful swimming along our shore.