Before a pair of zebra finches can settle down to start a family, they have to find a place to live. Whether that’s up in a tree or in a constructed nest box, the responsibility for finding a good ...

The scientists observed young male zebra finches working to learn their tunes. Some juvenile birds were given feedback after singing in the form of a video of a female bird performing arousal ...

The colours used in the study were picked because the male zebra finch's beak is coloured red or orange. The colour is based on carotenoids - the family of natural pigments found used by a variety ...

Juvenile male zebra finches normally learn to sing by memorizing the song of an older male, and then using auditory feedback to gradually match their own vocalizations to this 'internal model'.

For the first time, researchers have sequenced the genome of a songbird, reports an international consortium of researchers (Nature 464, 757–762; 2010). This songbird, the zebra finch, is ...

To a human ear the songs of all male zebra finches sound more or less the same. But faced with a chorus of this simple song, ...