Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new ...

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 ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

HVC is a region associated with the generation of learned bird songs. Investigators here use all male zebra finches to examine the functional anatomy of this region using patch clamp methods combined ...

Female cockatiels are prolific egg layers even if they're not housed with a fertile male. They tend to lay infertile eggs ... and there are a variety of different species including the zebra finch, ...