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 ...

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Sand Hollow State Park visitors who attended a Winged Wonders ranger-led presentation Wednesday hoped to catch a glimpse of ...

In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of ...

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 ...

Third grader Keyari White learned to identify the foot of a great horned owl from a museum specimen. The Campus Laboratory School at Carlow University in Pittsburgh is an independent Catholic school ...

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 ...

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 ...

Birders and bird guides refer to “our birds,” meaning the birds like Carolina chickadee, tufted titmouse, and northern cardinal that we see in our backyards — birds that “know us” and expect us to ...