A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

PUNE Rescued from illegal captivity in Ahmednagar district around the middle of April 2025 by the forest department, an injured and severely malnourished rose-ringed parakeet was admitted to the ...

We get captivated by a bird’s plumage and may not think to notice its beak, which is critical to the bird’s identity. I’ve often heard people yell “flamingo!” when they see a pink-plumed bird feeding ...

The shape of the beaks of different species of Galapagos finches played an important part in Darwin’s conception of natural selection. “In our field there is this presumption that the beak shape ...

My cousin C.T., who gets a mention here now and then, called me the other night and said before I quit I ought to tell the story about my mother's talking bird. I told him I'd already used that story, ...

New research on song sparrows offers a new take on bird-beak evolution that is more nuanced than earlier ideas based on finch studies A finch's beak evolves according to the size and shape of ...