Male sparrows can tell when their female partner is cheating on them, scientists claim. Sparrows are normally monogamous but, just as with humans, female sparrows can sometimes be tempted to mate with ...

Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract "the ladies." According to a study of more than 30 years of Savannah sparrows recordings, the birds are ...

Scientists from the University of Granada, in collaboration with the South African University of the Witwatersrand and the Percy FitzPatrick Institute at the University of Cape Town, have discovered ...

What a male song sparrow sings in each moment is dependent on what he sang 30 minutes ago and suggests that the birds don't have a 'bird brain,' but incredible memory and recall capacities. Any good ...

Doug Nelson can tell where he is in Oregon by listening to the trills at the end of a white-crowned sparrow’s song. It’s a neat trick, but “It’s not a useful skill,” Nelson, an ethologist at Ohio ...

Male sparrows are capable of fighting to the death. But a new study shows that they often wave their wings wildly first in an attempt to avoid a dangerous brawl. Male sparrows are capable of fighting ...

For the dusky seaside sparrow the end has come, not with a bang, but with a lonely twitter. The species, always reclusive and rare in the Florida salt marshes it once inhabited, is now a population of ...

Birds don’t just sing, they can 'beatbox' too, a new study suggests. Male Java sparrows may click their bills together with the notes of their song in a similar way to human beatboxers. Scientists ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A new ...

Any parents out there will be familiar with the unique sort of misery that results when your kid has a new favorite song. They ask to hear it over and over, without regard for the rest of us. Well, it ...