Spotting early signals: Small breaks in a bird’s routine — like a head turn or body tension — can be the earliest signs of upcoming action worth capturing. Using tech smartly: Platforms like BirdCast ...

Orange-crowned Warbler sitting on a branch, singing. Some of these songbirds will collect in “song neighborhoods” made of two to six males who mimic the songs of each other.© Dee Carpenter ...

Scientists say the learning skill allows dietary knowledge to spread rapidly through the community, say scientists.

Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals. An experiment on great tits has pinpointed a single factor --immigration -- that can cause birds to pay close attention to others, ...

As fall migration winds down, there are many ways to track where birds are going for the winter. One of the newer methods being used in Wisconsin is called the Motus Wildlife Tracking System. It’s an ...

Language learning becomes more challenging for people as we age. Children learn languages easily, but this facility begins to decline when we reach our twenties and beyond. Why? To better understand ...

Cockatoos rapidly learn to eat unfamiliar food by copying companions, highlighting the power of social learning in urban ...

Many animals that live in groups learn from one another, but few wild animals have opened a window into understanding animal social learning, like a single bird species: the great tits. Great tits ...