Where do birds live? How do they behave? How vulnerable are they to changes in their habitat? To answer those questions, researchers used to look toward factors such as size or migration patterns. But ...

Birds currently inhabiting many territories across Africa, Latin America and Asia are, on average, considerably smaller than those that predominated in 1940. This is the conclusion of an international ...

ANN ARBOR - North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades and the reason appears to be related to climate change, according to findings from a University of ...

For most birds, eyes are essential to life on the fly. They inform split-second aerobatic maneuvers amid dense branches and pinpoint distant predators or prey. Yet when studying how birds might adapt ...

A new study shows the eye size of birds can reveal broad patterns of their biology and behavior, including where they live, what they eat and how they hunt, providing a potential roadmap for future ...

Birds are getting smaller. So shows an analysis of migratory birds that died after flying into buildings in Chicago and were collected as specimens for the Field Museum of Natural History. David ...

ANN ARBOR - North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades and the reason appears to be related to climate change, according to findings from a University of ...