Credit: Amy Scarpignato, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute As the Arctic and the oceans warm due to climate change, understanding how ...
Cacao farms not only provide us with the pleasure of chocolate, but also offer potential advantages for biodiversity-friendly agriculture. The ...
Migratory birds are specially adapted to find their way over extreme distances that represent remarkable tests of endurance. Now, researchers ...
Bioenergy – For the birdsCredit: Chris Lituma/West Virginia University Bioenergy – For the birds An analysis by Oak Ridge National ...
The most pristine parts of the Amazon rainforest devoid of direct human contact are being impacted by human-induced climate change, ...
In a dry year in the West, when the world turns crispy and cracked, rivers and streams with their green, ...
Humans like truffles, as do many mammals. Now new evidence suggests that birds may also seek out and disperse these ...
Whether birds get caged in the eye of a hurricane may depend on the intensity and totality of the chaos ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Eye size likely plays a role in the contest between avian brood parasites – birds that lay ...
Ithaca, New York & Winnipeg, Manitoba—Eighty percent of bird species examined in a new study were reported in greater numbers ...
Researchers can predict what syllables a bird will sing—and when it will sing them—by reading electrical signals in its brain, ...
A new study from the Kalahari Desert finds that teamwork allows birds to cope with brutally unpredictable environments.Credit: Andrew Young ...
In times of exacerbating biodiversity loss, reliable data on species occurrence are essential, in order for prompt and adequate conservation ...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and University of Konstanz in Germany have identified how large land ...
Bird dispersal movements are thought to depend on complex demographic and genetic factors. Dr. Santiago Claramunt, Associate Curator of Birds ...
Alex the grey parrot, who famously asked “what color?” when looking in the mirror, had astonishing abilities to mimic human ...
