Despite their small brains, many birds develop sophisticated social structures with diverse systems of communication.

But when parrots live with people, they don't have any flockmates to learn "parrot" from. Instead, they use their highly specialized brains to pick up on human speech. So when parrots talk, do they ...

We know that birds sing. They also whistle, chirp, coo, caw, call, hoot, shriek, clack, warble. Some sound quite out of tune, ...

The birds in the video are different parrot species, but scientists have found that birds of different species can communicate. Birds will learn the calls of other birds if there is some benefit ...

Two neighboring macaws were asked to do different actions. What Haldar and her team found was that individual birds were more likely to perform the same intransitive action as a bird next to them ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region that controls vocalization. It showed that the two relied on different ...