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

Birds have long been admired for remarkable capabilities such as birdsong, migration or highly developed mating systems and parental behavior. Human observers from enchanted birdwatchers and ...

First of all, I have never kept one. It was about 15 years ago that I first learned of the existence of the zebra finch. Back then, YouTube posts weren't yet widely popular, and I'm not even sure if ...

While I was tidying up the room, a small feather drifted out. It probably belonged to my third daughter, a Java sparrow who departed two years ago. She was the youngest, a little princess, a spoiled ...

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!

In the present Research Topic, we have been successful in attracting contributions from a wide range of research centers around the globe. The new results gathered in a variety of biological ...

DURING my daily morning walk, I always see several small birds which have black head, brown body and pale gray-blue bill playing among the bushes. Last Wednesday, July 14, I took a picture of them and ...