The songs of superb fairy-wrens can indicate the bird's personality, according to new research. Birds with a more exploratory nature were found to have more elements or notes, while aggressive ...

Cuckoo birds have evolved a nasty habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other bird species, who then unknowingly tend to their young. But as new research published in Current Biology reveals, the ...

It's always a good idea to listen to your mother, but that goes double for baby fairy-wrens even before they are hatched. If those fairy-wren babies want to be fed, they need to have a password -- a ...

A male fairy-wren's low pitch song indicates body size, a new study has shown. A male fairy-wren's low pitch song indicates body size, a new international study has shown. The study led by University ...

Figure 2: Kaplan–Meier estimate of the survival functions of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo chicks, shining bronze-cuckoo chicks and lone superb fairy-wren chicks in superb fairy-wren nests. In short, we ...