If you've ever seen an Australian finch, you know that it has a brightly colored red, orange, or yellow bill. But how and why do these birds develop one color over another? A new study has revealed ...

These birds need a man to help about the nest, but still want options when choosing the best sperm to fertilise their eggs. Cheaters never win, except when they don’t get caught. Australian ...

Multilocus genealogical approaches are still uncommon in phylogeography and historical demography, fields which have been dominated by microsatellite markers and mitochondrial DNA, particularly for ...

If songbirds could appear on "The Masked Singer" reality TV competition, zebra finches would likely steal the show. That's because they can rapidly memorize the signature sounds of at least 50 ...

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or ...

Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...

It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that’s only half-true for the Gouldian finch. Jennifer Templeton from Knox College, Illinois has found that these beautiful birds only display ...