Jul 23, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of scientists led by the University of Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the genome of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)...

Jul 16, 2015 by News Staff

A team of ornithologists, led by Prof Robert Magrath of the Australian National University, has succeeded in teaching wild superb fairy-wrens (Malurus...

Jun 30, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Sabrina Engesser from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has revealed that the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps)...

Jun 26, 2015 by News Staff

Carbon 14 dating of scarlet macaw remains from Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico indicates that interaction between the pre-Hispanic Pueblo people...

Jun 25, 2015 by News Staff

High-speed flight recordings of lovebirds making quick in flight turns reveal how these birds improve sight and shorten blur by rotating their head at...

Jun 4, 2015 by News Staff

The well-preserved fossil of a previously unknown toothed bird that lived during the Cretaceous period, some 115 million years ago, has been found in the...

Jun 3, 2015 by News Staff

A tiny Australian bird, the brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla), mimics the hawk warning calls of neighboring bird species to protect its nest from predators...

May 26, 2015 by News Staff

Using slow-motion video-recording and experiments, an international team of ornithologists has found that the Mexican Jays are able to ‘weigh’ peanuts...

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

Male Java sparrows (Lonchura oryzivora) produce bill-click sounds along with their songs during courtship displays as well as when they sing to themselves...

May 12, 2015 by News Staff

Using the fossil record as a guide, a team of scientists led by Prof Arhat Abzhanov of Harvard University has successfully replicated the molecular processes...

May 6, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has described a new ornithuromorph bird that lived during the Hauterivian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch,...

May 1, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of ornithologists, co-led by Dr Per Alström of the Swedish Species Information Centre and Dr Fumin Lei of the Chinese Academy of...

Apr 10, 2015 by News Staff

A group of paleontologists has described a new genus and species of Phorusrhacidae that lived in what is now Argentina during the Pliocene epoch, around...

Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

The critically endangered swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) could become extinct within less than two decades, says a new study published online in the...

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

A team of ornithologists led by William DeLuca of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reports the first direct evidence that the blackpoll warbler...

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

In a worldwide study of the evolution of bird plumage coloration, a team of scientists led by Prof Peter Dunn of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee...

Mar 19, 2015 by News Staff

Long thought to be extinct, the blue-bearded helmetcrest (Oxypogon cyanolaemus) – one of the world’s rarest hummingbirds – has been caught...

Mar 12, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of ornithologists led by Dr Jorge Enrique Avendaño of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá has described a new species of tapaculo...

Mar 11, 2015 by News Staff

Eight, mostly complete talons of the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) from the Krapina Neanderthal site in present-day Croatia may be part of...

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

The Myanmar Jerdon’s babbler (Chrysomma altirostre altirostre), last seen in Myanmar more than 70 years ago, has been discovered still living in the...