The songs of superb fairy-wrens can indicate the bird's personality, according to new research. Birds with a more exploratory nature were found to have more elements or notes, while aggressive ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Bundaberg. Followed categories will be added to My News. The variegated fairy-wren is one of two species that can be seen in the area. They are called variegated ...

Individual superb fairy-wrens help their families and friends before helping strangers, suggesting these songbirds recognize which social tier individual birds belong to A pair of adult superb ...

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 ...

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 ...

Superb blue fairy-wrens eavesdrop on other bird species to learn when a predator is nearby, research has revealed. New research from the Australian National University shows the species learns the ...

First of all, how adorable are these birds? Second of all, don't get too cooey over the picture. It's a composite! Anyway, what I really want to talk about is the fact that these birds, appropriately ...

Why would a bird perform a particularly conspicuous display in response to a predator’s call? This strange behavior seems like a recipe for disaster, since it probably alerts the predator to the ...

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 ...