Humans are not the only creature that talk to their unborn baby. Findings of a new research have revealed that the Australian zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) also sing to their eggs before ...

DEAR JOAN: Every spring I wedge some baskets onto the header under our patio roof. Pairs of house finches come and make nests and raise offspring. This year we had eight nests with 40 eggs. Most ...

In the most recent podcast we discussed how baby bats learn their calls from all the other bats in their crowded colonies. And we mentioned in passing that songbirds usually get tutored directory from ...

Bad parenting is for the birds. Even baby zebra finch know this. Newly hatched chicks whose parents are poor foragers often get stressed from lack of food, leading them to quickly write off mom and ...

Peggy Eyres, of Clayton, writes, “At the end of May, we hung a new plant by our kitchen window, and within a week, a bird kept flying into it and staying. When I looked inside, lo and behold, I found ...

Gabriel A. Jamie's research has been funded by The Leverhulme Trust and the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council. It’s a warm wet day in Zambia and the rains are finally falling. A small, ...

DEAR JOAN: Every spring I wedge some baskets onto the header under our patio roof. Pairs of house finches come and make nests and raise offspring. This year we had eight nests with 40 eggs. Most ...