"I started working with these birds 25 years ago," says Jeffrey Podos, professor of biology at UMass Amherst and the paper's senior author. "In my very first publication on the finches, back in ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

these birds regulate their sex chromosomes in different ways. As only male zebra finches learn songs, this difference in sex chromosome regulation might be related to the zebra finch's singing ...