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 ...

Birders predict which species, including finches, will visit the Adirondacks this winter based on available food sources.

How do you know that finches' beak depth is heritable? You can see from Figure 2 that there is a correlation between the parents' and offsprings' beak size. How did the finch population change ...

Five birds share the name grosbeak and sport thick bills—but the similarities stop there. Look for these colorful fliers ...

If you’ve ever seen an Australian finch, you know that it has a brightly colored red, orange, or yellow bill. But how and why ...

Recently in Nature(399, 466– 470, 1999), Anthony Leonardo and Mark Konishi of Caltech reported that zebra finches retain a surprising ability to modify their songs in response to auditory ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes the most common things are extraordinarily beautiful, especially if we just slow down and really take a look. The ...

Recent studies reveal how birds develop their vibrant colors. Parrots create pigments called psittacofulvins, while finches ...

What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of ...