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Every (male) zebra finch sings a unique song. University of Illinois cell & developmental biology professor David Clayton compares the songs of two finches. Audio may be used only in connection ...

To a human ear the songs of all male zebra finches sound more or less the same. But faced with a chorus of this simple song, female finches can pick the performer who sings most beautifully.

In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just listen. But a new study by Daniela Vallentin at ...

The innovative key to this discovery? The ghosts of future finches. The new study shows that beak-driven changes to songs themselves can impact species recognition, and thus drive the separation ...

A major ecological change like drought can alter their songs so much that other finches won’t respond. The findings are described in a study published October 10 in the journal Science.

I showed that changes in the beaks of Darwin's finches leads to changes in the songs they sing, and I speculated that, because Darwin's finches use songs to attract mates, then song changes ...

Longer, thinner beaks are good for hunting insects, which are rarer in prolonged dry conditions. Beaks’ shapes then affect the songs the finches sing, which, in turn can attract different potential ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...