In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of ...

Orange-crowned Warbler sitting on a branch, singing. Some of these songbirds will collect in “song neighborhoods” made of two to six males who mimic the songs of each other.© Dee Carpenter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a massive difference between vocal learning bird species and birds that rely on innate calls. You can teach certain birds ...

Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals. An experiment on great tits has pinpointed a single factor—immigration—that can cause birds to pay close attention to others, ...

A symphony of synapses fires every time a songbird sings. For Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, the neural pathways he finds particularly interesting inside a bird’s brain are ...

From parrots mimicking greetings to magpies building intricate call sequences, bird vocal learning blends biology, environment, and social bonds. Some species chatter naturally, while others take ...

Cockatoos rapidly learn to eat unfamiliar food by copying companions, highlighting the power of social learning in urban ...

Birdsong is more than just mimicry. Birds learn to sing through complex brain processes similar to human speech learning.

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Each week a new group of birds passes through the yard as they wing their way north. Some stay to nest, while others continue their journey. So far, I’ve welcomed killdeer, woodcock, phoebes, field ...