At the University of Chicago, the neuroethologist Daniel Margoliash and the neuroscientist Amish S. Dave recorded the brain activity of zebra finches as they slept and dreamed.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/david-sulzer-profile-neuroscience-music

Blue wrens, scrub wrens, grey fantails, eastern spinebills, new holland honeyeaters, red browed finches, willie wagtails, rainbow lorikeets, Barbara’s knowledge of the birdlife that inhabit the garden could rival the most experienced bird watcher.

Source: https://berwicknews.starcommunity.com.au/news/2023-01-06/22-in-review-tranquility-in-the-casey-foothills/

By identifying the house finches, California towhees and other birds flocking to my feeder, it piqued my curiosity about the birds that inhabit the world around me.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2023-07-11/my-high-tech-bird-feeder-made-me-wonder-do-birds-have-a-right-to-privacy

For this study, Love explains they were interested to see whether there are interactive effects of different environmental factors on Darwin's finches' microbiomes in the Galapagos, focusing specifically on urbanization and parasitism.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-disentangling-elements-human-invasive-parasites.html

Purple finches broke their previous record of two banded in 2009 with six banded, and Swainson’s thrush beat out 82 banded in 2021 with 116 banded.

Source: https://www.lakesideleader.com/bird-report-maps-banding-slower-but-still-well-above-the-average/

While walking out to the woodshed to get some firewood, I heard the high-pitched warning shouts of the House finches and House sparrows.

Source: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/12/sharp-shinned-hawks-attack-songbirds-at-feeders/