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July 1, 2022 DNA testing reveals that the wild ancestors of the common domestic and feral pigeons, now extinct in many parts of the world, are still living on islands in Scotland and ...
Feb. 15, 2021 A new study examines feathers across 249 species of Himalayan songbirds, finding that birds at higher elevations have more of fluffy down than lower elevation birds. Finding such a clear pattern ...
Sep. 21, 2023 When Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago as a gentleman naturalist, he used the power of observation to develop his theory that species evolve over ...
Jan. 31, 2023 A new study found that small amounts of silver nanoparticles combined with a low dose of a common antibiotic inhibited the growth of resistant ...
Dec. 22, 2020 Competition for mates leads to a deeper voice than expected based on ...
Jan. 18, 2023 A new study shows that North American bird communities containing functionally diverse species have changed less under climate change during the past 50 years than functionally simple ...
June 24, 2022 New research shows how migratory birds are declining globally because of the way that humans have modified the landscape in recent decades. A total of 103 species of migrating birds were studied, ...
May 12, 2022 The authors of a major study on the once critically endangered pink pigeon say boosting the species' numbers is not enough to save it from extinction in the future. Despite the population ...
July 28, 2022 Researchers have found that that cloudier waters, caused in part by climate change, is making it harder for seabirds to catch ...
Mar. 30, 2021 Researchers broadcast marbled murrelet calls in mature forests and found that the threatened seabirds' choice of breeding locations is strongly influenced by whether they hear other murrelets in ...