New study reveals surprising female influence on song learning in zebra finches As with many bird species, only male zebra finches are able to learn the species-typical song from a tutor, usually the ...

A bank clerk had special reason to celebrate Mother's Day - after she became the first woman to give birth mid-air on a Virgin Atlantic flight. And to remember the unusual event, the little ...

The attractive house finch is one of the more common and recognizable species throughout the United States. Originally a “western” species of semiarid environments, it was introduced in the ...

Vallentin's team focused on zebra finches, songbirds known for their elaborate vocalizations. Like many animals, zebra ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

Recently in Nature(399, 466– 470, 1999), Anthony Leonardo and Mark Konishi of Caltech reported that zebra finches retain a surprising ability to modify their songs in response to auditory ...

Workington Zebra Finches beat Essex's Westcliff Ladies 22-10 on Saturday to take the Papa John’s Community Cup Plate. Captain Charlotte Cammack said the team had to work extra hard after going ...

Birth parents, both mothers and fathers, are a key piece of the adoption puzzle. The vast majority make the difficult decision to place their child for adoption out of what they perceived to be ...

Liar, liar, world on fire. TV writer Elisabeth Finch didn’t confine her imaginative fiction to her scripts. In Peacock’s “Anatomy of Lies” (now streaming), the audacious storyteller spun ...

In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just listen. But a new study by Daniela Vallentin at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence has overturned this ...