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, female finches can pick the performer who sings most beautifully.

The courtship song of male zebra finches is a well-studied example of a naturally learned behaviour, and is controlled by a set of interconnected forebrain regions in the dorsal ventricular ridge ...

Animals learn by imitating behaviors, such as when a baby mimics her mother’s speaking voice or a young male zebra finch copies the mating song of an older male tutor, often his father. In a study ...

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 ...

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 ...

But all of that gets pushed down the to-do list for an adult male zebra finch when he notices a female has drawn nigh.

We study perception and immediate-early gene response in perceptual regions, environmental factors that affect neurogenesis, and how stress affects song learning and brain development in male and ...