Living in a city can be a noisy existence. Long-time residents grow used to the cacophony, but the buzz of traffic, wail of sirens, hum of air conditioners and bustle of people at all hours could ...

Budgerigars are both impressive vocal mimics and also have complex vocalizations called warbles that are a mix of noisy and harmonic calls. Due to past work, we've already identified the brain ...

To investigate how budgies process and produce speech-like sounds, Long and his colleague Zetian Yang implanted tiny probes into the brains of four of the birds. They focused on a brain region ...

When asked about other species related to budgies, Yang acknowledges that this has not been researched, but believes that “parrots with similar vocal abilities could share the same neuronal ...

Budgies, also known as parakeets ... If they aren’t trained, cockatiels can become noisy and nippy. This cheerful bird loves to bathe, so provide them with a shallow dish of lukewarm water ...

President of E&I Lindsay de Saumerez said excessively noisy vehicles were a "real issue" for the community and if the proposals were passed by the States, a trial would be undertaken to see if ...

With Zetian Yang, also at NYU’s medical school, Long used silicon probes to record the electrical activity in budgies’ brains. They focused on part of the forebrain, the central nucleus of the ...

There are diseases that can be transferred to humans from psittacine birds, such as parrots and budgies, such as a viral infection. In addition, people can also show an allergic reaction to ...

An idyllic seaside village has been split in a dispute between locals and newcomers over noise caused by its centuries-old fishing industry. Holiday let and second home owners have complained that ...

Understanding how speech gets created in budgies’ brains could help clarify what goes wrong in certain communication disorders in people. Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) are tropical ...