Another type of finch – the zebra finch – provided a clue. The males prefer to watch their intended females with their right eye. The right eye feeds information to the left half of the bird ...

Finches are very endearing birds with their caring social behaviour and the zebra finch is also one of the most colourful. Read Today's Paper Tributes & Notices. Rewards. Subscribe for $4.

The songs of different finch species vary widely in acoustic features 1.Each male zebra finch sings a unique song. The songs are spectrally broad-band with noisy and harmonic syllables of ∼ 80 ...

Zebra finches travel in large flocks through Australia’s arid interior, looking for seeds. They’re highly social, and are known as a bird species able to learn new songs.

Bad parenting is for the birds. Even baby zebra finch know this. Newly hatched chicks whose parents are poor foragers often get stressed from lack of food, leading them to quickly write off mom ...

Zebra finches, which mostly live in arid areas of Australia, sing “heat calls” at temperatures above 26°C. Previous studies have found that the calls seem to reduce the growth of offspring ...

The chromosomes of finches born from older fathers have traits associated with a shorter life expectancy than the finches conceived by younger dads, revealed a new study published online in the ...