The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...

Authorities in Indonesia have made yet another major seizure of smuggled songbirds, highlighting the persistent pressure from a trade with deep cultural roots in the country. The shipment of 6,860 ...

Van Doren notes that 25 is a small subset of the songbird species migrating at night, some of which don't vocalize at all during flight. He and his team plan to follow up with more research ...

WILLIS, MI – Sylvia Taylor had a long career as a scientist for the state of Michigan.

Another study suggested that birds “buddy up” with other species at stopover sites during migration, but there was no evidence to show that different songbird species pair up or communicate ...

The food-loving French continue to eat ortolan buntings illegally, and France’s singularly long list of huntable birds includes many struggling species of shorebirds. Songbird trapping is still ...

In late morning on a bitterly cold day this week, with the outside temperature at 26 degrees, I heard the unmistakable “teakettle, teakettle” song of a Carolina wren from somewhere in my yard in ...

Do songbirds talk to each other during nocturnal migration, and how does this influence their migration? This is what a recent study published in Current Biology hopes to address as an international ...

There is huge variability in beak size and bite force among songbird species. In the famous Darwin's finches from the Galápagos Islands, for instance, there is a 40-fold difference in bite force ...

New research shows songbird migration may be driven by more than innate patterns and memory. Recorded flight calls reveal probable social associations between species making the nighttime trek.

Van Doren notes that 25 is a small subset of the songbird species migrating at night, some of which don't vocalize at all during flight. He and his team plan to follow up with more research ...