Sahas Barve, a Peter Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, led a new study to examine feathers across 249 species of…
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A Eurasian reed warbler used in the study and then released. Credit: Florian Packmor Research shows for the first time, how birds displaced beyond their…
January 5, 2021. (Click image for wider, high-resolution view.) A bird-loving farmer living near Florida’s Pelican Island helped spur the creation of a national system…
The researchers found that all male superb fairy-wrens produced and maintained vibrant colors, regardless of their ‘natural quality.’ Credit: Alex McQueen In many animals, female…
By four months of age the cognitive performance of ravens in experimental tasks testing their understanding of the physical world and how they interact with…
A chestnut-crowned babbler. Credit: Niall Stopford Animals can fall into an “ecological trap” by altering their behavior in the “wrong direction” in response to climate…
Credit: Dr. Dejan Stojanovic There could be fewer than 300 swift parrots left in the wild, according to new research from The Australian National University…
Illustration depicting the early bird Falcatakely amidst nonavian dinosaurs and other creatures during the Late Cretaceous in Madagascar. Credit: Mark Witton Rare cretaceous-age fossil opens…
White sand ecosystem patch at the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (RDS) do Uatumã, Central Amazonia. Credit: João Capurucho Birds travel across habitats patches to breed,…
A team of researchers from Penn State and New York University has deconstructed an important “biological clock” in the zebra finch brain and found that…
Similar to the cortex of mammals, the nerve cells in certain areas of the brain of birds are organized in vertical layers and horizontal columns.…
Restricted to the Atlantic Forests of Brazil and at risk of extinction, this species require effective protected areas to prevent the loss and degradation of…
San Francisco Skyline Reductions in humanmade noise resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown led birds in parts of California to adapt their songs to be…
Bullock/Baltimore Oriole hybrid. Credit: Bryan Calk, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles Are Not Merging A half-century of controversy over two…
Parent visiting chicks. Credit: Santiago Merino / National Museum of Natural Sciences Madrid Researchers in Spain study how disease vectors such as flying midges sense…
The Andean condor in flight – recording devices revealed it actually flaps its wings for just one percent of its flight time. Credit: Facundo Vital…
This image shows a white-throated sparrow. Credit: Scott M. Ramsay Most bird species are slow to change their tune, preferring to stick with tried-and-true songs…
Princeton-led team trains wild hummingbirds to discriminate UV color combinations. To find food, dazzle mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, birds rely on their…
Mysterious Australian Night Parrots in natural environment. Credit: Steve Murphy, Charles Darwin University Australia’s most elusive bird, the Night Parrot, may not be much better…
Willow tit (Poecile montanus) in flight in Kittilä, Finland. Poecile montanus: Dispersal ability has a prominent latitudinal gradient; species that live in temperate regions, like…