It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that’s only half-true for the Gouldian finch. Jennifer Templeton from Knox College, Illinois has found that these beautiful birds only ...

Zebra Finches are mainly grey, with characteristic black & tear drop eye stripes and zebra-like black and white barring on the rump and upper tail.

Direct social interaction allows zebra finches to form deeper connections with their mates," said lead author Erin Wall, a Ph.D. graduate in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience.

For example, the male Zebra finch is a colorful bird with black and white striped tales and chests, brown side feathers, and orange cheeks. Females are usually gray.

Each male zebra finch sings a unique song. The songs are spectrally broad-band with noisy and harmonic syllables of ∼ 80–200 ms in duration, covering a frequency range of ∼ 0.3 kHz to ∼ 10 ...

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 ...