New research on song sparrows offers a new take on bird-beak evolution that is more nuanced than earlier ideas based on finch studies A finch's beak evolves according to the size and shape of ...

Chinese and American scientists have discovered the fossil of an unusual 125-million-year-old bird. “This bird is totally unique,” said paleontologist Luis M. Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of ...

Has anyone heard of a blue sparrow? I have one - it's popped into my garden in Sydney a couple of times in the past few days with a flock of ordinary brown sparrows and tucked into the seeds in the ...

Maria Bertrand always liked birds, but it never crossed her mind to get one. Now she has developed her own form of communication to feed Happy the rescued sparrow. “He knows wormy worm, which is his ...