A new study shows that one group of Galápagos yellow warblers responds to intruders more aggressively than others. It adds ...

But some have managed to not just survive, but even thrive in urban environments ... 1200 bird species, showing how urbanization changes feather colors. “Brown shades are more common in natural ...

"Many of the most common urban birds globally are very familiar to us here in the U.S., including the house sparrow, barn swallow, osprey, and peregrine falcon," Tingley said. "Although ...

More information: Juan Diego Ibáñez‐Álamo et al, Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown, Ecology Letters (2025). DOI ...

adding that even "common" birds won't stay that way if we don't work to understand how we're impacing their environment. While urban songbirds play an important ecological role, they also fill ...

Urban ducks and crows might offer us a connection to nature, but scientists have found wild birds that live near humans are more likely to harbor bacteria resistant to important antibiotics.

There's so much to see. “Above all things, basically everyone needs to look up, open your eyes and look up and see what’s around us.” Those are the words of David Lindo, a world-renowned ...

The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates. Researchers found that two common songbirds, the Northern Cardinal ...

“He suggested we study whether urbanisation is associated with differences in bird coloration,” Delhey said. Many studies have investigated how urban noise has been changing the way city birds ...

Here are some common bird species to discover. Small and social, the house sparrow is cherished in Indian homes and gardens, thriving in urban and rural settings, nesting in various crevices.

Birds living in cities are performing a type of "avian rap" while their rural counterparts are sticking to more traditional sounds, a study shows. Dutch researchers found that urban species of birds ...