Zebra finches don’t just mimic sounds—they understand them, revealing surprising insights into animal communication and ...

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or ...

These birds need a man to help about the nest, but still want options when choosing the best sperm to fertilise their eggs. Cheaters never win, except when they don’t get caught. Australian ...

Birds whose names begin with the letter Z are a rare and fascinating group in the avian world. From vibrant little finches to ...

Multilocus genealogical approaches are still uncommon in phylogeography and historical demography, fields which have been dominated by microsatellite markers and mitochondrial DNA, particularly for ...

Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis) songs from 33 colonies in two geographic zones of Australia (central and southeastern) were ...

For this project the authors received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, the Ecological Society of ...

Australia's Twenty20 captain Aaron Finch is relishing the return of fans to Wellington Regional Stadium for the ...