Biology

Craig Benkman's 40-Year Fascination With Crossbills and Conifers

The Secret to Song Sparrows' Extraordinary Success Lies in Their Genome

Quiz: Can You Pick the Closest Relatives on the Tree of Avian Evolution?

Living Bird Magazine Meet the "Tanabeak," an Extremely Rare Tanager–Grosbeak  Hybrid

Living Bird Magazine Can the Clark's Nutcracker Help Its BFF, the Whitebark Pine, Recover from Disaster?

Living Bird Magazine For Unusual Birds, Does Distinction Raise the Risk of Extinction?

Living Bird Magazine Analysis: How Did the Tree of Life Grow Its Branches?

By Shuffling Genes, a Songbird Takes a Shortcut to Speciation

Living Bird Magazine Sound Sleuthing: Discovering New Bird Species by Listening for Them

Living Bird Magazine Scientists ID why Gouldian Finches Have Red, Black, or Yellow Heads

Living Bird Magazine The Forgotten Female: How a Generation of Women Scientists Changed Our View of Evolution

Evolutionary Biology Why Evolution Goes Wild on Islands: The Science of Adaptive Radiation

Living Bird Magazine Female Birds-of-Paradise Go For Complex Males

Living Bird Magazine Add Flair to Your Life List By Tracking Down Evolution's Most Distinctive Birds

That Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs? It May Have Sped Up Bird Evolution

Evolutionary Biology How Can 9 Species Look So Different Yet Be Genetically Almost Identical?

Living Bird Magazine The Evolution of Bird Migration

K–12 Education Extinct Birds Can Teach Students Key Science Concepts

Bird Academy From So Simple a Beginning: The Wall of Birds

Bird Academy Explore the Diversity and Evolution of Birds with the Wall of Birds Interactive

Students For Tropical Wren, Songs and Species Evolve in Isolation

Birds-of-Paradise Project Birds-of-Paradise Project

Evolutionary Biology From Many, One: How Many Species of Redpolls Are There?

Bird Academy Fanciness Lost: How Evolution Sometimes Leads to Simplicity

Bird Academy On a Sage-Grouse Lek: A Video Exploration Into Wild Behavior

Bird Academy A Fancy Experiment with Australia's Red-backed Fairywrens

Bird Academy Fancy Males & Choosy Females

Bird Academy How Fanciness Evolves

Bird Academy Ways To Be Fancy

Bird Academy Fancy Males

Bird Academy All About Fancy Males

Living Bird Magazine Splitting Feathers: One Backyard Hummingbird Species Becomes Two

Evolutionary Biology New Cotinga Tree of Life Sheds Light on Evolution of Brilliant Colors

Maybe Birds Can Have It All: Dazzling Colors and Pretty Songs, Too

The Top 10 Most Amazing Looking and Sounding Tanagers (as Determined by Science!)

Bird Academy Bird Academy

Social Selection and the Evolution of Ornaments [video]

Evolutionary Biology Infidelity in Australian Bird May Be the Secret Keeping a Species Together

Birds-of-Paradise Project Types of Paradise: What Is an Astrapia, Parotia, Riflebird, or Sicklebill?

Birds-of-Paradise Project How Feathers Evolved Into Giant Head Wires in the King-of-Saxony Bird-of-Paradise

Birds-of-Paradise Project Meet the 39 Species of Birds-of-Paradise

Birds-of-Paradise Project How Geographic Isolation Turned New Guinea Into an Evolutionary Workshop

Birds-of-Paradise Project Seven Steps to Understanding the Evolutionary Power of Female Choice

Birds-of-Paradise Project Explore the Many Shades and Types of Color in the Birds-of-Paradise

Birds-of-Paradise Project Feathers: and the Birds-of-Paradise

Birds-of-Paradise Project Speciation: An Illustrated Introduction

Birds-of-Paradise Project Natural & Sexual Selection: An Illustrated Introduction

Birds-of-Paradise Project A Gorgeous Video Introduction to the Birds-of-Paradise Project

Living Bird Magazine A Crow-Shaped Hole in Hawaii

Biomimicry: Copying our way to conservation [Video]

Toucans Use Enormous Bills to Cool Off