Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years BCE. This is shown in a new study by SNSB and ...

Daurian redstarts move their nesting sites closer to or even inside human settlements when cuckoos are around. In doing so, they actively protect their nest against brood parasitism, as cuckoos avoid ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Passerines – the perching birds – are by far ...

Island systems have played a disproportionally large role in the study of the evolution, redistribution and maintenance of biological diversity. Contributions by Darwin 1 and Wallace 2,3 formed the ...

An international research team has found strong evidence that passerine birds near the equator live longer than their higher latitude counterparts. An international research team has found strong ...

Passerine birds, also known as perching birds, that migrate by night tend to fly faster in spring than they do in autumn to reach their destinations. This seasonal difference in flight speed is ...

The order Passeriformes—a group of birds known as passerines or perching birds, representing more than 60% of today’s bird species—originated about 47 million years ago in the South Pacific, near ...

Cuckoos lay their eggs into other birds’ nests, using their hosts’ breeding efforts for their own reproduction. The ‘foster parents’ invest resources in raising another bird’s offspring, at the ...