Do Airplanes Cause Hearing Damage in Birds?

** Hearing damage in birds. It’s no joke. A recent news report revealed that birds, too, can suffer from hearing loss. The cause: the noise produced by airplanes. We work with sound and hearing protection every day, so we naturally found this fascinating to read.**

Birds with hearing damage. You might be wondering how researchers were able to test this. What stood out was that the birds began to sing more loudly, most likely because they could no longer hear themselves otherwise. Think of it like people with hearing damage who keep turning up the volume on the television. The culprit, it turns out, is the noise produced by airplanes.

It goes without saying that we won’t be fitting earplugs on birds, but we still thought it would be interesting to look at the impact of noise from an entirely different angle.