08/28/2026
Birdsong and walks in the forest tied to significant mental health benefits
“When you have a really gray space that is going to stress people out and give them negative experiences, if you can change that space so that it has natural sounds, you can ameliorate the downsides of that gray space,” Nils Peterson said. “In our research we have evidence for bird sounds, but there is also a lot of literature supporting the use of water sounds and other things in nature.”
https://news.ncsu.edu/2026/07/birdsong-and-walks-in-the-forest-tied-to-significant-mental-health-benefits/