Get our newsletter! Java sparrows are both vocalists and percussionists. Photo: Suzme/amanaimages/Corbis When Java sparrows make love, they do it to the beat of their own in-house avian techno.

Male Java sparrows may coordinate their bill-clicking sounds with the notes of their song. Birds may communicate using both vocalizations and movement, as for instance occurs during courtship ...

Pair-bonded Java sparrows show enlarged eye rings to signal breeding readiness. Birds are known for their elaborate courtship rituals and romantic gestures that are replete with beautiful songs ...

Journal Reference: Jenna Onaga, Masayo Soma. Eyes of love: Java sparrows increase eye ring conspicuousness when pair-bonded. PLOS ONE, 2023; 18 (10): e0292074 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292074 ...

Male Java Sparrows Drop The BeatNon-vocal sound production is quite a rare phenomenon in birds that are vocal learners, Soma says, as the majority of the cases of non-vocal sound production are ...

Male Java sparrow songs include clicking sounds the birds make with their bills. The clicks may be involved in courting females, scientists say. Credit: M. Soma and C. Mori/ PLOS ONE 2015 ...

A Java sparrow named "Omame sensei" draws a tarot card at the Kissho Tennyo Koryuten fortune-telling shop in Yokohama's Naka Ward on Feb. 14, 2025. (Mainichi/Chika Yokomi) ...

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Male Java sparrows may coordinate their bill-clicking sounds with the notes of their song, according to a study published May 20, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Masayo Soma and ...