Want More Birds at Your Feeder? Here’s What Bird Seed the Experts Recommend

The type of seed that attracts the widest variety of birds to your feeders is sunflower seed, according to Cornell’s ...
Science News

Hundreds of new genomes help fill the bird ‘tree of life’

From gulls to grouse to grackles, more than 10,000 bird species live on this planet. Now, scientists are one step closer to understanding the evolution of all of this feathered diversity. An ...
Yahoo

Types of birds you might see in your backyard

Feathered friends bring many benefits to our outdoor space, but the types of birds you might see in your backyard will depend on where you live. For example, perhaps you live in North America, in ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Speaking of Nature: Winter Finch Forecast: Spruce budworm boom could result in opportunities to see many species of birds

Spruce trees provide two types of food; cones like this one that contain seeds for birds to eat and needles that caterpillars eat. / BILL DANIELSON / For the Gazette Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...
The Washington Post

When two different types of birds mated, a new species, Big Bird, was born

It's not every day that scientists observe a new species emerging in real time. Charles Darwin believed that speciation probably took place over hundreds if not thousands of generations, advancing far ...
Scientific American

Birds Are in Trouble across the U.S. But It’s Not Too Late to Protect Them

Forget the canary in a coal mine: today the danger zone is the entire U.S., and the sentinel species comprise a growing list that includes the Golden-cheeked Warbler, the Florida Scrub Jay and the ...