One side effect of our collective global coffee addiction is the transformation of native forest into coffee plantations. But are all coffee plantatio...

We usually think about natural selection making small changes, generation by generation, over long time spans. But during extreme weather events, high...

We might assume it's because the grass is greener on the other side. But this month's study suggests that some migrant Sanderlings headed to the tropi...

'Tis the season for caroling.... and some of us enunciate better than others. On its wintering grounds in Tanzania, the Thrush Nightingale sings an in...

Flying is a dangerous business. Birds must dodge trees, powerlines, windows. Anyone who has seen a robin flit at full speed into a dense thicket knows...

In TV advertisements, it seems paper towels can always absorb more grape juice.  Are urban areas similarly able to take in more and more introduced bi...

Studying birds typically involves in-person observation, but with the rapid advance of high quality audio recorders and microphones, bird researchers ...

Not all brood parasites are on the hunt for an unsuspecting bird of another species to take advantage of. In fact, there are many bird species who lay...

Is there an evolutionary arms race between birds trying to hide eggs and birds trying to find eggs?  If so, who is racing who? Brood parasites (like m...

Feeding the birds is big business these days, but how has all that food availability affected bird communities? It turns out that your feeder (combine...