I watched two cardinals on a bare branch today, one with wings aquiver, leaning toward its parent and asking to be fed with a loud chirp. The mother obliged by placing a bit of sunflower chip in its ...

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

It goes a little something like this: A young male zebra finch, whose father taught him a song, shared that song with a brother, with the two youngsters then creating new tunes based on dad’s ...

When we hear a song for the first time, it often seems like it goes in one ear and out the other, sometimes only few catchy words from a chorus leaving much of an impression. But when the Australian ...

One of our most beloved and common yard birds, the northern cardinal, may not be as aptly named as we think. Despite its current range from as far north as Maine and west to northern Wisconsin and ...

Zebra finch youngsters learning to mimic adult songs lose ground but then recover whenever they sleep, according to an extensive study of recordings. After being awake several hours, the young males ...

Male zebra finches learn their song by imitating conspecifics. To stand out in the crowd, each male develops its own unique song. Because of this individual-specific song, it was long assumed that ...