“What’s that?” I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). We walked some of the...

What is sex? This is a simple question with a complicated answer. Part of the answer is this: The biological identity of an individual...

One of the key features of birds, and I use the term “key” literally, is vocalization. Very few other vertebrates use sound so socially...

Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds This morning, I have three interesting scientific findings related to bird for you. First, birds may age...

I want to alert you to a recent study (from April) that looks at the plight of bird populations under conditions of climate change...

Don’t you hate those people who say “I told you so”? But – I did tell you. While birding the fir forests of the...

Tradeoffs in behavior, and plasticity We assume natural selection has shaped birds to avoid predators. Noticing predators, reacting to them perhaps with an alarm...

A new research project using Zebra Finches in semi-wild conditions indicates that for some bird populations a certain aspect of climate change may have...