For the past few months, and continuing through the winter, several species of finches are seeing a very good flight year ...

A UC Berkeley study shows that when zebra finches hear the call of another zebra finch, they have a mental representation of ...

Spruce trees provide two types of food; cones like this one that contain seeds for birds to eat and needles that caterpillars eat. / BILL DANIELSON / For the Gazette Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...

New research from CU Boulder confirms that there are not, in fact, multiple species of Redpoll Finches, as previously thought For birders struggling to figure out what kind of Redpoll they’re watching ...

The type of seed that attracts the widest variety of birds to your feeders is sunflower seed, according to Cornell’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO— In response to decades-old listing petitions and a series of lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed to protect five ...

There’s more to Darwin’s finches than meets the eye. Famously, the 14 species found on the Galapagos islands are distinguished from one another largely by differences in beak shape. But the first full ...

Kristin is a science journalist in New York who has lived in DC, Boston, LA, and the SF Bay Area. Most recently, Kristin worked for PBS Newshour and National Geographic writing about science and ...

Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridisation, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common than previously thought. A team of ...

It's not every day that scientists observe a new species emerging in real time. Charles Darwin believed that speciation probably took place over hundreds if not thousands of generations, advancing far ...