A female house finch forages near the Hay Barn at UC Santa Cruz. House finches are common from coast to coast today and are familiar visitors to backyard feeders. These birds are native to the ...

Humans aren't the only living beings who find a singing voice attractive in the opposite sex—songbirds do too. For about a third of the approximately 4,000 songbird species that sing only one song, ...

This little songbird is native to the western United States, but has been introduced into the eastern side by man. It has become fairly common across most of the United States. The bird I show here is ...

Funding: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (R35 GM150714, RO1 AR047364, R37 AR060306, RO1 AR078050 to CMC), National Science and Technology Council (Dragon Gate fellowship ...