Research by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute suggests that the richness of bird species increases with landscape heterogeneity. A research team from the institute ...

Jaguars are bulky animals, stocky, strong and imposing. The biggest jags of all live in the Pantanal. They are ...

They used a global dataset on the abundance of over 1,200 bird species in habitats with different levels of urbanization and combined it with data on plumage color. The team then analyzed the ...

We were also surprised that eponymously named bird species — those whose common names refer to a human name — were studied less often than other birds in the dataset. I think our work ...

Itanagar: Seven new species of migratory birds have recently been sighted in the Ziro Valley of Arunachal Pradesh. The birds were sighted during the ‘Ziro Bird Walk', organised by a team of ...

This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated worldwide patterns of bird species to ascertain how Arctic bird species can adapt ...

Many bird species are monogamous. However, genetic studies have shown that the social partner is often not the genetic father of all offspring. Some studies found biased sex ratios: more males ...

What some of these drably plumaged species lack in color and plumage contrast, they make up for in personality. What was the origin story for this paper? I noticed that many of your previous papers ...

The natural world is a delicate balance of ecosystems, where every species plays a crucial role. Unfortunately, many bird species are facing the brunt of human activities, particularly habitat ...

ZIRO- Seven species of various migratory birds were sighted at Ziro during the Ziro Bird Walk by a team of avid bird watchers here recently. These migratory birds were sighted at the traditional wet ...

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