That’s because spring is when most birds turn to family obligations—they mate, build nests, lay eggs and raise young. Why do ...

Learn how Zebra finches' natural drive to learn their songs makes them masters of their craft - and what we can learn from ...

Other birds, of course, are singing in March, for example, the American robin, but it seems they are more often vocal at dawn ...

However, species-specific differences in ability exist: humans possess unmatched vocal flexibility for speech, parrots excel at mimicry and zebra finches produce stereotyped songs with fixed ...

“The amount of effort that a juvenile bird makes to achieve vocal mastery is immense ... In new research published March 12 in the journal Nature, the team put male juvenile zebra finches into ...

In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song.In one, ...

Many everyday skills, such as speech, are not innate. They are learned through trial and error. Now, by analyzing young ...

Zebra finches learn their courtship songs early in life by first listening to their fathers and memorizing the melodies.

How would you identify Northeast Winter by sound? In uncertain times, the seasons' reliable sounds offer comfort.

It's not the most dramatic TV you'll see this Spring, but it's cute and wholesome – and seems to have a relaxing effect on ...