Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...

This small thrush (Catharus guttatus) may have the most appreciated song of any in the forest.It floats like liquid honey and ...

Migratory songbirds are fickle breeders, especially since the marshes where they mate are flanked by shore homes, roaring ...

Why Songbirds Are Larger in Chilly Climates ... identifying a small number of candidate genes with an apparently large impact on variation in body size is really interesting. ... “Our findings imply ...

They combed through genetic samples from the two largest song sparrow subspecies that live year-round in the Aleutian Islands, as well as two smaller subspecies: one that breeds in Alaska but migrates ...

Scientists have unlocked the genetic basis underlying the remarkable variation in body size observed in song sparrows, one of North America’s most familiar and beloved songbirds. This discovery also ...