Hitting the right note: why endangered Australian songbirds are being taught to sing in captivity

Song tutoring' gives the regent honeyeater a better chance of survival in the wild, researchers find

Captive-bred regent honeyeaters - a native Australian songbird threatened with extinction - are being taught to sing the right songs, with new research showing it helps them survive when they are released into the wild.

Less than 400 critically endangered regent honeyeaters, a woodland songbird, are left in the wild so conservationists are supporting the bird with a captive breeding program.