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…
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…
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…
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…
Bird watching another bird on TV. Credit: University of Cambridge By watching videos of each other eating, blue tits and great tits can learn to…
Black-throated Blue Warblers have shifted the timing of their spring and fall migrations over the past fifty years. Credit: Kyle Horton A growing body of…
The Kentish Plover (right) and White-faced Plover (left) are look very similar but are in fact different species. Credit: Jonathan Martinez Scientists have identified a…
This picture shows a spirited flying Taiwan Blue Magpie displaying a full array of flight feathers in action. Credit: Shao Huan Lang If you took…
This picture shows a male white bellbird screaming its mating call. Credit: Anselmo d’Affonseca Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on October 21, 2019,…
Now recognized as the loudest in the world, Amazon white bellbird calls have a sound pressure about three times that of screaming pihas, another Amazon…
Reproduction and migration are the two most demanding tasks in a bird’s life, and the vast majority of species separate them into different times of…