A Connecticut man tried smuggling nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through JFK Airport so he could sell them for use in high-stakes Big Apple bird-singing competitions, federal officials ...

I watched two cardinals on a bare branch today, one with wings aquiver, leaning toward its parent and asking to be fed with a loud chirp. The mother obliged by placing a bit of sunflower chip in its ...

It goes a little something like this: A young male zebra finch, whose father taught him a song, shared that song with a brother, with the two youngsters then creating new tunes based on dad’s ...

Finch-singing contests like the ones outlined in last week’s federal bust of an international avian smuggler are a hopping happening in city parks — as The Post witnessed Sunday morning in Queens.

Customs officials at New York's JFK Airport discovered 35 live finches attached to a man's jacket and ankles as he attempted to smuggle them into the country for singing competitions, federal ...

Is your intelligence or sense of humor genetic or learned? A new study on bird songs might help us understand the complexities of the debate over nature versus nurture. Researchers at UC San Francisco ...

A man was apprehended at an airport Monday allegedly attempting to smuggle 35 live finches, hidden in hair curlers and clothes, into the U.S. from Guyana. A criminal complaint filed in the Eastern ...