With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people ...

Researchers suspect that dark-eyed juncos living in Los Angeles adapted based on the availability of food scraps tossed by ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...

One lucky group spotted all five species of woodpeckers they could possibly hope to see on a January day: hairy, downy and ...

Kickstart your morning with coffee and birdwatching! Bring your travel mug, fill up on some free bird-friendly coffee from Birds and Beans and head out on a morning bird walk with a Humber Arboretum ...

If you’ve ever been curious about how wildlife adapt to short-term environmental changes, a recently-published study has big news about what the pandemic did to one of the most ubiquitous birds out ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

12:27, Fri, Dec 12, 2025 Updated: 12:29, Fri, Dec 12, 2025 Brits have been urged to leave a common kitchen staple on the ground for garden birds in December. Birds are an important presence in any ...

A pygmy nuthatch snacks from a bird feeder outside the Santa Clara Valley Bird Alliance headquarters at McClellan Ranch Preserve in Cupertino on Sept. 19, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. A dozen ...

It has a highly specialised diet that consists almost exclusively of bones and bone marrow, making it the only known vertebrate to do so.