the birds' songs gradually returned to their stable adult structure, suggesting that the internal model was unaffected by this manipulation. Thus, adult zebra finches retain the ability to adjust ...

We hear birds singing loudly in the spring ... Many other birds, including chickadees, cardinals and house finches, will eat safflower (and in the spring, the rose-breasted grosbeaks seem to ...

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 ...

In fact, Hank loved birds so much that when he retired from ... colourfully-plumaged finches, and the odd blue or green budgie that wasn’t deemed docile enough to spend its life inside the ...

practice their singing while they snooze. Scientists had previously noticed that some birds seemed to make movements that resembled lip-syncing (beak-syncing?) while they dozed. To see what was a ...