This week, birders around the world lost one beloved feathered creature from their birding life list. Fortunately, no species went extinct. Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With so many beautiful birds regularly visiting gardens across the UK, it can be hard to tell them apart. But one year-round ...

Birds that can live at 14,000 feet and also breed at sea level might have evolved more quickly than previously thought Mountaineers who venture high into the Colorado Rockies have likely spotted ...

The reason why the find is important to science is because this represents the first empirical observance of an animal undergoing speciation. The find has come about after biologists have been ...

Adult finches make "heat calls" as the temperature rises. Exposure to the song prepares their unhatched young's brains for the heat.

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the islands ...

For years, scientists have been able to link many animal calls with particular situations. A warning call may send a group ...

There is a simple way to attract the birds into your outside space.

Mountaineers who venture high into the Colorado Rockies have likely spotted medium-sized, brown-and-pink birds rummaging around on snow patches for insects and seeds. These high-elevation specialists ...