Birdwatching can help slow brain ageing and is increasingly being used as therapy for dementia patients. Every week, a group ...

A migratory bird brain, the Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), has been mapped for the first time using high-resolution light microscopy. The open-source software tools developed, and the ...

It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists at ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of the ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution. A ...

If you've spent years scanning the treetops with binoculars, your brain may actually look different than other brains. A small Canadian study of nearly five dozen adults found that experienced birders ...

The finding could lead to earlier diagnoses and better treatments for human neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, which are known to hinder vocal production ...