Every pet bird has a personality. Some are quiet observers, while others are social, expressive, and always ready to interact. For many bird lovers, the dream is to hear their feathered companion ...

Go outside in the early morning, and let your ears detect the birth of spring heralded by bird song, nature's most beautifully composed chorus. All we have to do is listen; the opening harmonies will ...

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Bird song learning is a model system for studying the general principles of learning, but attempts to draw parallels between learning in birds and mammals have been difficult because of anatomical ...

A symphony of synapses fires every time a songbird sings. For Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, the neural pathways he finds particularly interesting inside a bird’s brain are ...

Juvenile zebra finches that experience high stress levels will ignore how their own parents forage and instead learn such skills from other, unrelated adults. This may help young birds avoid ...