Social interactions promote vocal learning, but the impact of social feedback on this process and its neural circuitry is not well understood. We studied song imitation in juvenile male zebra finches ...

From melodic morning choruses to territorial songs that echo through forests and grasslands, birds rely on vocalizations to ...

Conspecific signals are attractive to receivers. Research on this attraction has focused mostly on signals such as courtship displays 1 or foraging calls 2. For both types of signals, attending to ...

How does a bird learn its birdsong? Tomoko Fujii and Masashi Tanaka, from Waseda University, explored what drives a zebra finch to approach and imitate other zebra finches to learn its birdsong in a ...

Traffic noise leads to inaccuracies and delays in the development of song learning in young birds. They also suffer from a suppressed immune system, which is an indicator of chronic stress. A new ...