Christina Riehl, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will present “Biology and Conservation of Tropical Birds: Linking Life History to Ecology” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online ...

Ornithologists Henry Pollock (left) and Jeff Brawn (right) tested the temperature tolerance of tropical birds across habitats within Neotropical forests, finding a greater range of tolerance than ...

A 30-year "snapshot study" of birds in the Pacific Northwest is showing their surprising resilience in the face of climate ...

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...

Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 45, No. 8 (August 2018), pp. 1884-1895 (12 pages) Aim: Since Darwin, ecologists have assumed that species tend to be abundant in the centre of their geographic ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

The Caribbean plays host to a brilliant spectrum of colourful avians, says John Lewis-Stempel, as he revels in a birdwatcher’s paradise. Illustrations by Annabelle King.

First a wild flamingo showed up on Cape Cod, an appearance that one specialist described as “monumentally rare.” Over the weekend, a second tropical bird was spotted far from home, but seemingly home ...

A tropical bird — never reported to have graced the Sunflower State — is now calling Kansas home. Mark Nolen, a Wichita resident and Hutchinson Community College biologist professor who has been bird ...