A symphony of synapses fires every time a songbird sings. For Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, the neural pathways he finds particularly interesting inside a bird’s brain are ...

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For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...

Jackdaw chicks learn about predators by listening to adults, reveals new research. Scientists played recordings of predator calls to chicks in their nests – and paired the sounds with either adult ...

Orange-crowned Warbler sitting on a branch, singing. Some of these songbirds will collect in "song neighborhoods" made of two to six males who mimic the songs of each other.© Dee Carpenter ...