• Zebra Finch Song Learning Consortium
  The specific goal of our project is to advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms of vocal learning by providing a quantitative description of the relationship between physiological variables and vocal performance over the course of development in a songbird, the zebra finch.
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• Songbird Neurogenomics
  The goal of this project is to facilitate the application of powerful new methods of genomics in songbird research.
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• Diversity of Animal Sounds CD
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• Bird Calls
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• Birds Musical Preferences
  
  Image: Ohio State University <P>Some sparrows, a new study finds, are remarkably picky about which songs they sing, showing a clear preference for melodies sung by birds of the exact same feather. Indeed, Douglas Nelson of Ohio State University reports in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that male mountain white-crowned sparrows (r
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• Interview with Donald Kroodsma
  For over 30 years, Donald Kroodsma has worked to unravel such mysteries of avian communication. Through field studies and laboratory experiments, he's studied the ecological and social forces that may have contributed to the evolution of vocal learning. Kroodsma has paid particular attention to local variation in song types, known as dialects.
  Young parrots, songbirds and hummingbirds learn a repertoire of songs, just as human infants learn to talk. But why is this ability to learn a vocal communication system something we share with birds, but not with our closer relatives, such as the nonhuman primates?
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• Sleeping Birds Sing
  
  Image: DANIEL MARGOLIASH/ University of Chicago Sometimes the best way to deal with a problem is to sleep on it. That approach appears to be employed not only by people but by songbirds as well. Indeed, according to a report published Friday in the journal Science, zebra finches may very well rely on sleep in order to rehearse their songs.
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• Sex Differences in Song Learning
  
  When it comes to learning songs, female birds may be quicker studies, but males can develop the ditties on their own. According to a report published today in the journal Nature, female cardinals learn the same number of songs as males in less than a th
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• Ritualization (ethology)
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