For some kinds of birds, learning to sing is as much a part of growing up as learning to talk is for human children. They listen to their parents and other adults, memorize, imitate, practice, and in ...

Young canary males can be tempted to sing songs that do not sound very canarylike, but as breeding season approaches, maturing canary males transform their biologically untested songs into ...

An innate password tells cowboys to copy their songs. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Most songbirds learn to sing by copying songs they hear around them. But young brown-headed ...