William Feeney receives funding from Australian Geographic and the Australian National University. Species must reproduce to survive, and animals have found unique ways of achieving this. For some, ...

Family conflicts over parental care result in offspring attempting to exert control using solicitation behaviours, whilst the parents are potentially able to retaliate through provisioning rules.

A new study has linked duetting with sharing the workload of egg incubation in zebra finches. ZEBRA FINCHES FORM lifelong monogamous bonds and share egg incubation duties – but how do they negotiate ...

In a magnificently thought out piece of research, biologists have discovered that forced coupling among birds may be a bad thing, with zebra finches, for example, far happier to choose a mate. By ...

Finches are very endearing birds with their caring social behaviour and the zebra finch is also one of the most colourful. They often live in harsh, arid and semi-arid habitats and they make the most ...

An ideal mating partner may provide good genes for the offspring but may also enhance the number and quality of his offspring through being a good parent. However, within a given species there is ...

When breeding diet is restricted, domesticated zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, produce male-biased primary and secondary sex ratios, but unexpectedly produce unbiased ratios when food is ...

The finches have been used to living in a large group Homes are being sought for more than 300 birds after they were recovered from a bird lover in Fife who became too ill to look after them. The ...

Stress has a lot of negative effects. It can cause anxiety and anger. It’s associated with everything from sleepless nights to drug dependence. But stress is not actually positive or negative. It is ...