Founded over 30 years ago, the Transvaal Zebra Finch Society hosts two bird shows annually, one in March/April and the other ...

Many everyday skills, such as speech, are not innate. They are learned through trial and error. Now, by analyzing young ...

Learn how Zebra finches' natural drive to learn their songs makes them masters of their craft — and what we can learn from ...

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Zebra finches learn their courtship songs early in life by first listening to their fathers and memorizing the melodies.

A study by Duke University neuroscientists uncovers the role of dopamine in guiding song learning in juvenile zebra finches.

In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song. In one, ...

In this week's Short Wave roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber talk about the origins of life on Earth, what bird brains ...

Transvaal Zebra Finch Society Classic Bird Show attendees. The Transvaal Zebra Finch Society welcomed wildlife enthusiasts to ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned vocalisations such as birdsong.

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region that controls vocalization. It showed that the two relied on different ...