Founded over 30 years ago, the Transvaal Zebra Finch Society hosts two bird shows annually, one in March/April and the other ...

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

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

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region that controls vocalization. It showed that the two relied on different ...

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 research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...

The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech ...

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

Published online March 19 in the journal Nature, the study mapped the activity of a group of nerve cells in the bird's brain called the central nucleus of the anterior arcopallium (AAC), which is ...