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 ...

Sharing secrets Superb fairy wren chicks are learning the importance of listening to their mother before they've even hatched, a new Australian study has found. According to the study, published today ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're not the only species that can recognize voices in the womb: Inside the egg, tiny songbirds called superb fairy wrens can discriminate sounds from different birds of their own species, a new ...

Figure 1: Comparisons of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo and fairy-wren eggs. Figure 2: Kaplan–Meier estimate of the survival functions of Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo chicks, shining bronze-cuckoo chicks and ...