The sex frequently neglected by birders and scientists takes the spotlight in the Audubon Photography Awards’ Female Bird Prize Carlyn Kranking - Associate Web Editor, Science A female American ...

Here’s a fun way to combine both: Gather up a few friends and go birding sometime during the Memorial Day weekend (May 25-27). But — and here’s the challenging part — you’ll only be counting female ...

Kevin Omland is a professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Evangeline Rose is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland. Karan Odom is a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Some have claimed she's indulging a forbidden romance. More likely, loneliness compels her to seek company at Rio de Janeiro's zoo. Either way, a blue-and-yellow macaw that ...

Scientists have proposed new and innovative ways to study female bird song that was previously heavily understudied. FEMALE BIRD song has often been explained as functionless, a by-product of ...

Source: 12019, Pixabay, free download. I recently read an inspirational and fascinating book by bird expert Rosemary Low titled Female Heroes of Bird Conservation. 1,2,3 As Rosemary notes, ask someone ...

An extremely rare bird with half its body looking like a male and the other half like a female was captured recently at a nature reserve in southwestern Pennsylvania A gynandromorph rose-breasted ...

Scarlet macaws lay as many as four eggs per clutch, but only one or two chicks survive until fledging due to parental neglect. Scarlet macaw in flight. (Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash. NOTE: ...

ERIE, Pa. – Longtime birder Jamie Hill knew he'd come across something rare. The Waterford, Pennsylvania, man saw a northern cardinal that appeared to be male on its right side and female on its left.