Testosterone introduced to specific regions of the male canary's brain affects the frequency and quality of songs, which are used to attract females. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University divided ...

Many songbirds learn their songs early in life from a role model. In the absence of an appropriate tutor, they develop an improvised song that often lacks the species-typical song structure. However, ...

For some kinds of birds, learning to sing is as much a part of growing up as learning to talk is for human children. They listen to their parents and other adults, memorize, imitate, practice, and in ...