As you’ll see in the above video, the vampire ground finch is one blood-thirsty little bird. The Vampires of the Galápagos ...

Six consecutive droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands, scientists have said.

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's ...

David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) was first published in 1947; few books have had such a great impact on evolutionary biology, indeed it is still one ...

This species is also resident on Darwin Island, one of the smallest and the most north-westerly of the Galápagos Islands. Galápagos finches are well-known - they are sometimes called Darwin's finches ...

The Galápagos are a stretch of 13 major islands that live as much in myth as on the map—a finch-crowded Brigadoon where Darwin arrived in 1835 and began to make observations that eventually ...

Darwin's Finches These drab but famous little birds of the Galapagos Islands are a living case study in evolution. Isolated in the South Pacific, they have developed 14 species from a common ancestor ...

The islands are quite close together and they have similar landscapes, plants and animals. But if you look carefully, you can see that they’re not exactly the same. For example, the finches on ...

The Galápagos Islands are a spectacular natural treasure and one of the best places on Earth to appreciate change. To biologists, a trip to the Galápagos is something of a pilgrimage to sacred ...

Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like waved albatrosses and blue- and red-footed boobies. You'll find birds on all of the Galápagos' islands ...