Does estrogen affect the way females perceive male sexual signals? That is a question a team of Yale researchers explored in a study, focusing on the female house sparrow.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2017
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Java sparrows are more likely to mate after dancing together, according to a study from Hokkaido University, contradictory to the belief that songs are the primary sexual signal.
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2017
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Birds' beaks come in an incredible range of shapes and sizes, adapted for survival in environments around the world. But as a new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances reveals, there's even more to bird beaks than meets ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2016
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What's good for adults is not always best for the young, and vice versa. At least that is the case with song sparrows and how they experience the effects of climate change, according to two recent studies by scientists at ...
Ecology
Aug 12, 2013
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Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract "the ladies."
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2013
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While singing the same songs as your neighbours may sound harmonious, research conducted at Queen's University Biological Station (QUBS) suggests that song-sharing amongst song sparrow populations is actually an aggressive ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2011
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With the help of new radiotelemetry technology, researchers from the University of Princeton and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell have now succeeded, for the first time, in studying fever in a vertebrate ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2010
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The results of a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) study that rapidly measures stream habitat have been adopted by a government agency working with private landowners to restore waterways throughout the U.S.
Ecology
Aug 18, 2009
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