The Gouldian Finch Society will honour one of South Africa’s avicultural pioneers with a memorial show and auction in Alberton, celebrating excellence, mentorship and the enduring passion for ...

Birdsong, like human speech, is learned via auditory experience during a developmentally restricted sensitive period. Within projection neurons of two avian forebrain nuclei, NMDA receptor-mediated ...

Male (left) and female (right) zebra finches. The orange feathers displayed by the male are colored by the pigment pheomelanin, which is also present in human skin and red hair. Pheomelanin is ...

Low cone crops in Canada are driving northern finch species south this winter, with sightings of pine siskins, redpolls and ...

Male (left) and female (right) zebra finches. The orange feathers displayed by the male are colored by the pigment pheomelanin, which is also present in human skin and red hair. Pheomelanin is ...

What did Chris Finch do or say to pick up a second technical foul and get tossed in Phoenix? Apparently, the Timberwolves' head coach called the officiating crew "bozos" under his breath, which is ...

A zorse refers to a hybrid horse, which is a cross of a male zebra stallion and a female horse mare. It is also called a zebrose, zebrula or zebra mule because although it has attributes of both ...

There are hundreds of dog breeds around the world, from the teensy chihuahua to the massive Saint Bernard—all thanks to centuries of selective breeding by humans. With such a wide range of canine ...

Birdsong is a communicative process between birds associated with courtship and mating. Birdsong is considered to be distinct from bird calls, which are shorter than birdsong and attributed with ...

We've compiled a list of weird animal behaviors we've amassed from the wild world web!