Birds worldwide share a unique alarm call to warn each other about brood parasites like cuckoos. This vocalization, a blend ...

A group of five swearing parrots continues to spew "naughty" words at a wildlife park in England -- and people apparently can't get enough of the "fowl" language. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in ...

Charles Darwin suggested in 1871 that spoken language originated with instinctive sounds, like squeals or yells, which humans then learned to imitate and modify for specific purposes. Now, scientists ...

A new global study has revealed that birds from vastly different species and continents use a remarkably similar alarm call ...

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team ...

The parrots are a fount of foul language. Their habit of spouting curse words at a torrid rate has, by turns, mortified and amused the people who work with them at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in ...

A British parrot who went missing for four years has reunited with its owner - but there's something very different about the ...

Birds across the globe independently evolved a shared warning call against parasites, blending instinct and learning in a ...

Researchers William Feeney, James Kennerley, Niki Teunissen have published a study that suggests over 20 species of birds ...

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might ...