The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada,” by Lillian Stokes and Matthew A. Young, published in 2024, is ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation—which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes—seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

The Wildlife Center of Virginia is warning people who like to feed birds to be on the lookout. An eye disease that can prove ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

A male house finch that is a regular visitor to my deck for sunflower seeds appears sick. He’s less active, and when he ...

How do you know that finches' beak depth is heritable? You can see from Figure 2 that there is a correlation between the parents' and offsprings' beak size. How did the finch population change ...

Authorities took her zebra finches from a woman from Salzburg. After some confusion and a stopover at the zoo, the animals ...

The study showed that populations don’t lose their “evolvability,” even if conditions remain the same for many generations.

University of Arizona neuroscientists studying the brains of songbirds have found that aging alters the gene expressions that ...

Spring is here and many common British birds are looking for a mate to nest with - meaning there's lots more starlings, ...