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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNScientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here’s What’s Being Done to Save Them BothIn Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...
Discover how mountain chickadees use complex calls to communicate food sources, social interactions, and predator presence.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently removed nearly two dozen species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, including one that called the Carolinas home.
A magnolia warbler (left) and an American redstart (right). During their migrations, these species may travel together. Credit: Shutterstock. This season, billions of birds will take to the skies as ...
New research shows songbird migration may be driven by more than innate patterns and memory. Recorded flight calls reveal probable social associations between species making the nighttime trek ...
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Songbirds' great risk results in great genetic reward - MSNU-M researchers found that songbird species that migrate from the boreal forests of the northern United States and Canada to the tropics to overwinter have more genetic diversity than species who ...
The study, "Social associations across species during nocturnal bird migration," appeared in Current Biology on Jan. 15. "We can't be sure what they're saying, but birds might broadcast calls ...
The Center for Biological Diversity has asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add the Bendire's thrasher to the endangered species list. The thrasher is a rare desert songbird whose habitat ...
Most songbird species have complex songs and fairly simple calls. This is why vocalizations sound most melodic during the spring, when birds are attracting mates and breeding.
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