Photographer Captures Fairy-Wrens Who Look Like Living Glitter Confetti with Wings originally appeared on Parade Pets. You may have never seen a Fairy-Wren before, because they're native to Australia.

I've been wondering lately, do animals invent names? As in names for themselves? Names for each other? I've always thought that what we do when we call ourselves "Ralph" or "Laura" is unique, ...

Like a lot of birds, superb fairy wrens of Australia have a problem: Cuckoos lay their eggs in the fairy wrens’ nests. This is called brood parasitism, and it’s how cuckoos manage to have their baby ...

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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 ...

Cooperation among different species of birds is common. Some birds build their nests near those of larger, more aggressive species to deter predators, and flocks of mixed species forage for food and ...

Alexandra McQueen receives funding from the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment and Monash University. Anne Peters receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship and ...