Wild yellow-naped amazon parrots in Costa Rica produce structured vocal duets that follow rule-governed sequences strikingly similar to the syntax found in human language, according to new research ...

To begin deciphering the subtleties of wild Amazon Parrot duetting, Professor Dahlin and collaborators conducted more than three years of field work to record the warble duets sung by mated pairs of ...

Canada announced that it will support Costa Rica and other countries in the region with a $15 million donation through the Conserve Birds program. The initiative seeks to protect several key ...

Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing ...

Warble duets seem linked to active territory defense. Physical fights in the wild were always preceded by warble duets. Playback experiments also showed that parrots increased warble duets when ...

The Santa Barbara Audubon Society will present a free talk on the magical birds of Costa Rica, 7:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15 in Farrand Hall at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Long ...

Learn how wild parrots follow language-like syntax and structured vocal rules during territorial duets.

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What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor with a little curved beak on a small dove-like head? You get the gray-headed kite. The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) ...

“Many call types assort together, much like words are commonly given together within bodies of human text, such as grass and ...

This photo provided by researchers shows a royal flycatcher bird in Las Cruces Biological Station in Coto Brus, Costa Rica in March 2018. Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade ...