Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

In preparation for a presentation on the birds we saw while in Ecuador recently, I was struck by how many of the birds were extravagantly colored, many eye-poppingly so. Thumbing through my field ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depends on where you live. If you're far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you'll ...

National Bird Day 2025 highlights how bird population changes reveal environmental stress and ecosystem health worldwide.

To cool down, birds rely on panting, resting in the shade, or reducing activity. During prolonged heatwaves, however, these ...

The Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), last seen in the wild in 1988, is making a comeback. Thanks to years of dedication and the steadfast efforts of the Sihek Recovery Program team, Guam ...

The purple gallinule, native to the Caribbean, landed in Houlton but was fatally injured by the cold. Several off-course ...

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

Extreme heat poses grave threat to tropical birds The notion that bird populations are steeply declining is not new – a 2019 study found bird populations in the US and Canada have dropped by 30% since ...