But Trichomonosis (Trichomonas gallinae) is a parasitic disease that impacts a bird's digestive system, particularly ...

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 ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

Gardeners should also be vigilant for signs of sick birds, such as fluffed-up feathers, difficulty swallowing, or lethargy. If an infected bird is spotted, it’s best to temporarily remove feeders and ...

"In my very first publication on the finches, back in 2001, I showed that changes in the beaks of Darwin's finches lead to changes in the songs they sing, and I speculated that, because Darwin's ...

Utah biologists have been studying the state’s most elusive bird to learn more about its behavior and how to protect it in ...

A pathogen for bird pink eye remains viable on bird feeders in winter conditions much longer than in summer conditions ...

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 ...

Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can't hear ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...