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 ...

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 ...

Wrong. And if you insinuate that to a serious student of those popular finches, you might very well prompt him or her to have, well, a canary. These days, the cheery little yellow bird your ...