Male Java sparrows may coordinate their bill-clicking sounds with the notes of their song. Birds may communicate using both vocalizations and movement, as for instance occurs during courtship displays ...

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 ...

Java sparrows are both vocalists and percussionists. Photo: Suzme/amanaimages/Corbis When Java sparrows make love, they do it to the beat of their own in-house avian techno. As at a rave, the birds’ ...

Pair-bonded Java sparrows show enlarged eye rings to signal breeding readiness. Birds are known for their elaborate courtship rituals and romantic gestures that are replete with beautiful songs, ...

It appears these white little critters have recently been creating a bit of a ”flutter” in the Japanese Twitterverse, and we guess that should come as no surprise, considering how utterly cute they ...

Professor Shigeru Watanabe and colleagues at Keio University, Japan, were the joint winners of the 1995 Ig Nobel psychology prize for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the ...

Eight endangered Java Sparrows (Lonchura oryzivora) were rescued from a pet shop near the Ooty Municipal Market by the T.N. Forest Department with the help of local conservationists on Monday (April 8 ...

When Shabbir Ahmad, owner of a small towel factory, came to know that lucrative export of exotic birds was picking up, he built cages of various sizes in a vacant area of his factory premises located ...