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

A small songbird no bigger than a sparrow flies 1,700 miles over open ocean in a non-stop flight lasting less than three days, a study has found.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...