Oct 11, 2023 by News Staff

Earth’s magnetic field is occasionally but regularly impacted by bursts of energy from the Sun (space weather), such as coronal mass ejections. Birds...

Mar 6, 2023 by News Staff

The previous documented sighting of the dusky tetraka (Xanthomixis tenebrosa) — one of the top 10 most wanted species by the Search for Lost Birds...

Jun 7, 2021 by Natali Anderson

An international team of ornithologists has described and named two new species of the warbler genus Cisticola using museum specimens collected half a...

Aug 20, 2019 by News Staff

Each spring and fall, millions of birds switch to migrating at night. Most of these are small songbirds migrating long distances that need to alternate...

Mar 19, 2019 by News Staff

Blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata) that breed in western North America migrate up to 12,400 miles (20,000 km) roundtrip each year, some crossing the...

Nov 20, 2018 by News Staff

A small songbird called the Siberian willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus yakutensis) holds a long-distance migration record in the 10-gram weight category...

Nov 8, 2018 by News Staff

A three-species hybrid warbler found in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid warbler mother and a warbler father from an entirely different genus...

Oct 23, 2018 by News Staff

A striking new species of leaf warbler has been discovered in the forests of the Indonesian island of Rote by an international team of researchers. The...

Aug 10, 2018 by News Staff

Oriental cuckoos (Cuculus optatus) vary the size of their eggs to match those of their hosts, a new study published in the Journal of Zoology has found. Meshcheryagina...

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...

Sep 24, 2013 by News Staff

Audubon’s warblers (Setophaga coronata auduboni) may have acquired genes from fellow migrating songbirds in order to travel greater distances, say...

Dec 8, 2011 by News Staff

US researchers found that Kirtland’s warblers like to live in young forests and forests that have been on fire, stated in a press release from NASA’s...