Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical wintering grounds in South America. "Birds are great indicator species of ...

Extreme heat poses grave threat to tropical birds The notion that bird populations are steeply declining is not new – a 2019 study found bird populations in the US and Canada have dropped by 30% since ...

You might think that the neotropics are one big mating party, but even in places that stay green and vibrant year-round, ...

Corey Tarwater (third, from left), an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, shows members of the bat research team from the Smithsonian Tropical ...

Scientists know comparatively little about the breeding seasons of tropical birds. This point is underscored by a new study that shows insect-eating birds in the tropics can postpone breeding by ...

Human-driven climate change threatens many species, including birds. Most studies on this topic focus on long-term climate trends, such as gradual rises in average temperatures or shifts in rainfall ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

NIAGARA FALLS, ON — Parrots, lorikeets and hornbills cavort freely inside a Niagara Falls, Ontario attraction. Bird Kingdom, just on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, is the largest indoor ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...