How rare a Gouldian Finch ? Gouldian Finches are Australia's most spectacularly colored grass finches, and are perhaps the ...

For a reddish-beaked bird called the zebra finch, sexiness is color-coded. Males have beaks that range from light orange to dark red. But to females, a male's colored bill may simply be hot, or not, ...

Not all brightly colored birds are in the tropics. The U.S. has its own fair share of colorful avian friends and you can even ...

Evening grosbeaks are flashy, loud and beloved at feeders — but their population has declined 92% since 1970. Here's what to know during this winter's irruption.

The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers, and the euphonious melodies of songbirds all evolved as ...

Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as ...

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It’s important to remember that we humans are simply animals. A very advanced species, but members of the animal kingdom ...

The last few weeks brought a late winter visitation by one of our prettiest little finches, the siskin. Quite diminutive and ...

Photograph of three male zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis), whose mating calls were used as part of the study. Credit: Raina Fan. The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers ...

Citizen scientists listened to pairs of mating sounds from 16 different species, including male zebra finches, and selected ...

Agreement between animals and humans was strongest when the calls involved lower pitched sounds or acoustic adornments, such as trills, clicks and chucks. Charles Darwin had a hunch that birds had ...