Changes in finch beaks, driven by environmental factors, also alter their songs, which affects how the birds recognize their ...

Eagles are powerful birds of prey found worldwide. They have large beaks and strong talons. Some of the largest species by ...

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, ...

That’s why the Audubon Photography Awards introduced the Female Birds category in 2021. By creating a space for photographers ...

If you were a flowering plant, wouldn't you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting "rival" ...

The Galapagos is a province in Ecuador well known for the diversity of finches, who helped British naturalist Charles Darwin ...

New video upsets the old notion that these birds of paradise use wing clapping to make percussive sounds while courting.

RENO, Nev.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the rare western wildflower Tecopa bird’s beak may qualify for ...

The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are biological rock stars, as they provided a key piece of evidence for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. One reason for this is how new ...

The extinction of 610 bird species over 130,000 years is documented, coinciding with human expansion. Researchers highlight ...

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 team discovered older birds would not be able to recognise the calls of younger generations if their beaks evolved as a ...