Darwin's finches in the Galápagos archipelago provide an iconic model for the evolution of biodiversity on earth due to natural selection. A team of scientists from Princeton University and Uppsala ...

Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety in color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow, and orange. In a study published in Current Biology, ...

New research could ruffle some feathers in the birding world. It finds that Redpolls, a bird found in the Arctic that will sometimes come to the Southern latitudes during the winter and can be hard to ...

The Finch Forecast sees pine siskins moving as far south as the Mid-Atlantic, and things also look promising for common redpolls. If you have catkin-heavy birches in your yard, look for these charming ...

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 islands ...

More than a dozen species of birds in the Galapagos Islands served as prime experimental subjects for Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution -- and today, "Darwin's finches" still provide examples of ...