When it comes to pets, it's probably safe to say that birds are the most musical. While all kinds of animals have been shown ...

House finches are small songbirds. Males have rosy red heads and chests, while females are brownish. These birds are native ...

If you’ve ever been jolted awake by a noisy flock of birds at dawn, you’re not alone in wondering what all the fuss is about. Every morning, before the sun is fully up and long before most people are ...

What I love most about juncos is that even a casual nature watcher can find them, and enjoy their spritely antics on a dreary ...

Each morning begins with the same sound – birds singing before sunrise. A new study on zebra finches explains this behavior with remarkable clarity. The researchers found that early singing isn’t ...

🎶🍃 Let your mind rest with calming bird songs from Europe’s forests, fields, and wetlands. This peaceful soundscape features robins, blackbirds, finches, wrens, warblers, and more — recorded in ...

We recorded basal ganglia–projecting dopamine neurons in singing zebra finches as we controlled perceived song quality with distorted auditory feedback. Dopamine activity was suppressed after ...

I love listening to birds singing and surely miss it when they're not telling us what they're thinking and feeling. I've come to believe that listening to birdsong and other sounds of nature had a ...

Neuroscientists have found a link between vocal changes and the aging brain in zebra finch songbirds, which could help lead to earlier diagnoses for disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's ...