Passerine (perching) birds make up 60% of all bird species, including some familiar Australian favorites, like the superb fairy-wren and willie wagtail. Until now, they were believed to only be ...

Bird skeletons reveal evolutionary history shaped by climate shifts and environmental upheaval. Artificial intelligence ...

Focus: Using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds Funding: Marie Curie Fellowship We are using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds, the core ...

Island systems generally have fewer species than continental areas due to their small size and geographical isolation. Low island diversity reduces the possibility of exportation of island lineages ...

Researchers led by Manfred Gahr of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen have investigated the relationship of bird families. For the first time, they have been able to clarify the ...

In many clades of birds distributed in southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines and Australasia, numerous differentiated island populations have been given species names. To avoid ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Passerines – the perching birds – are by far ...

Daurian redstarts move closer to humans to protect their nests from brood parasitism. Daurian redstarts move their nesting sites closer to or even inside human settlements when cuckoos are around. In ...

Analysis of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes,. The ...