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Kenyan birders James Apolloh Omenya and Simon Odhiambo located the Red Weaver, a species that hadn’t been documented since 2014. They collected the first known recordings of the species using the Merl...

Kenyan birders James Apolloh Omenya and Simon Odhiambo located the Red Weaver, a species that hadn’t been documented since 2014. They collected the first known recordings of the species using the Merl...

Search for Lost Birds

Echolocation is a fascinating way that animals like bats and whales find their way around the world.

Males of Hylodes perere emit territorial calls ranging from simple to complex combinations of peep (A) and squeal (B) notes, often accompanied by visual signals. Because note A resembles advertisemen....

Humans organize social interactions in part by referring to others using proper names (hereafter “names”). Names might also facilitate the complex social lives of animals. Several animal species…

Birdsong carries meaning across open space, helping birds attract mates, defend territory and communicate with rivals. While there has been much research into the use of birdsong across species, resea...

At the AOS 2024 annual meeting, fellow ornithologists and I were invited to present academic talks during a female bird symposium organized by Joanna Wu aimed at highlighting recent research on female...

Researchers working with Cerulean Warblers are developing a tool that could allow scientists to recognise returning birds by voice, reducing the need to recapture and re-identify them

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to analyze troves of images and audio, gaining unprecedented insight into the lives of birds and how to more effectively protect them.

Fiber-optic cables detect silent whales by reading the faint pressure wave a swimming body pushes through the water, a 2026 PNAS study found. NTNU researchers tracked a blue whale in the Arctic after ...

FLORES, Guatemala — This March, rangers on patrol in the Maya Forest came across the feathers of hunted birds and paths that had been cleared through the trees. These led them to a 2-hectare (5-acre) ...

Driven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…

Males aren’t the only angry birds defending their territory. A clever test finds which songbirds step up to fight off intruders and the role monogamy plays.

Mars Curiosity Rover Makes a Big Find on the Red Planet: The little robotic chemist that could

Venezuela is close to passing a law to update the country’s mining regulations and attract private investment in gold, silver, coltan and other minerals. But advocacy groups say the law may end up exa...

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Great Crested Flycatcher with a piece of shed snakeskin. Photo by Barbara Taylor / Macaulay Library. From the Spring 2025 issue of Living Bir ...

By listening in on their nightly hunts, scientists discovered that small, fringe-lipped bats are unexpectedly able to efficiently take down prey nearly their own size.

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Here, the authors combine ancient DNA, stable isotopes, and computational modeling to study colorful feathers from a pre-Incan tomb in Peru. They identify four species of parrots, which were likely ca...

Myrmecophilous butterflies evolved diverse adaptations to communicate with ants, including acoustic ones. We analyzed the rhythmic properties of vibroacoustic signals in two ant and nine butterfly sp...

Island environments drive distinctive morphological and life history traits known as the ‘island syndrome’. Previous studies pointed to lower sexual s…

Two new antbird species discovered in the Amazon Basin and described in the open-access journal Vertebrate Zoology.

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As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

No ears, no problem. The tobacco hornworm caterpillar, a common garden pest, can actually detect airborne sound via microscopic hairs on its body, according to a team of faculty and graduate students at Binghamton University. The research could have implications for improving microphone technology.

This article is the fourth in a series about “The Pioneers”, the naturalists in 19th and early 20th century China who shone a light on China’s natural heritage.   ===== …

Civil society has long been a catalyst for social change by reshaping structures, influencing values, and challenging power dynamics; however, its ...