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 ...

U.K.-based sales and distribution company Blue Finch Films has acquired worldwide rights to “Imposters,” a sci-fi thriller ...

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 ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

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 ...

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!