Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Master birds are used in songbird competitions in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world to “teach” competitors elements of their songs. This ...

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The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording cage, the little gray bird bites my finger with its thick red bill. Ouch!

The division of cognitive processing between the two hemispheres of the brain causes lateralized eye use in various behavioral contexts. Generally, visual lateralization is shared among vertebrates to ...

Songbirds are being entered into high-stakes singing competitions across the country, and conservationists say protected species are in danger. Credit... Supported by By Richard C. Paddock Photographs ...

North America has lost more than a quarter of its birds since 1970 Bird populations in Asia and the US are "in crisis", according to two major studies. The first concludes there are three billion ...

Common only 20 years ago, three black-winged mynah species now face extinction in the wild, with an estimated 500 remaining. Meanwhile some 40,000 live in captivity in Indonesia, according to new ...

Today we unveil the results of Round 3 of our latest Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll series, a 1-to-282 ranking of R.E.M.’s entire catalog of songs recorded between 1981 — the original Hib-Tone ...