A new study reveals the importance of daily singing exercises for songbirds, highlighting the rapid weakening of their vocal muscles without regular use. Female songbirds…
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Otus bikegila. Credit: Martim Melo A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, an island lying off the west coast of…
Male yellowthroat with a larger-sized black mask. Credit: Conor Taff For female yellowthroats, there’s more than one way to spot a winning mate. For female…
Informing how birds know when and where to stop migrating, researchers using nearly a century’s worth of data report that the Eurasian reed warbler –…
A flock of sanderlings (Calidris alba), a long-distance migratory shorebird, which may benefit from being lighter colored to avoid overheating during migration. Credit: Pablo F.…
Cinnabar larvae feeding on ragwort. Credit: Callum McLellan Young birds that eat insects with conspicuous warning colouration to advertise their toxicity to would-be predators quickly…
As early as 18,000 years ago, humans in New Guinea may have collected cassowary eggs near maturity and then raised the birds to adulthood, according…
A Kirtland’s Warbler in Michigan. Credit: Nathan W. Cooper The trillions of bacteria living in our guts play a crucial role in our ability to…
Archaehierax sylvestris. Credit: Jacob Blokland 63 bone fossil finding in desert is one of the “best preserved” eagles ever and a very rare discovery. A…
Representative images of individuals representing short beak (left four birds) and medium or long beak (right four birds) pigeon breeds (image credit: Thomas Hellmann). Short…
This image shows a male-like female white-necked Jacobin hummingbird being released after capture and tagging. Credit: Irene Mendez Cruz Much like in human society, female…
Both male and female White-necked Jacobins fan their tails during courtship or aggressive interactions. Because this bird also has its wings partially raised it’s likely…
Ascension frigate. Credit: Sam Weber A vast seabird colony on Ascension Island creates a “halo” in which fewer fish live, new research shows. Ascension, a…
Harpy Eagle. Harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) — which are among the world’s largest eagle species — struggle to feed offspring in heavily deforested areas of…
Migratory birds such as European robins can sense the Earth’s magnetic field. Now researchers show for the first time that a molecule from their visual…
Some of the birds collected at Chicago’s McCormick Place that are in the Field Museum collections, including an eastern meadowlark (far left) and an indigo…
Noise and light pollution can change which birds visit our backyards. A new study reports that birds across the continental U.S. tend to avoid backyard…
Zebra Finch Singing is crucial for the recognition, sex life, and speciation of songbirds; new research published in Current Biology shows songbirds have extremely high-resolution…
Talk about getting your ducks in a row. There are roughly 50 billion individual birds in the world, a new big data study by UNSW…
Mummified scarlet macaw recovered from Pica 8 in northern Chile. Credit: Calogero Santoro, Universidad de Tarapacá, and José Capriles, Penn State Ancient Egyptians mummified cats,…