I have a male white zebra finch, and I want to get it a companion. Will a male owl finch be OK to put in the same cage? Each species of bird acts a little differently in its relationships with other ...

When building a nest, previous experience raising chicks will influence the choices birds make, according to a new study by University of Alberta scientists. The results show that birds that have ...

As midnight nears on New Year’s Eve, and you accept your third glass of prosecco, think of the zebra finch. The prolific creatures, common as pet songbirds around the world, are also popular among ...

Their first vocalizations help young zebra finch males to memorize the songs of adults. When babies learn to talk or birds learn to sing, the same principle applies: listen and then imitate. This is ...

Male zebra finches learn their song by imitating conspecifics. To stand out in the crowd, each male develops its own unique song. Because of this individual-specific song, it was long assumed that ...

A READER sent me a photo of a white crow and asked how it could get like that, so this week I will explain how an excess or a lack of the pigment melanin can result in black and white birds. Normal ...

Zebra finches fire up brain regions and vibrate their vocal cords in ways that mimic singing, even while asleep. Flickr/Michael Lawton Zebra finches are so good at singing, they could do it in their ...

The genetic code of a small, noisy songbird is providing scientists with clues to the nature of human speech. The genome of the male zebra finch devotes a lot of genetic code to hearing and singing ...

The zebra finch subspecies T. guttata castanotis, native to Australia, is the progenitor of all common laboratory populations of zebra finch. These birds weigh 10–15 grams and are sexually dimorphic: ...