Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1999, Stanford PhD student Çağan Şekercioğlu needed to know ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

A warning has been issued for 80 percent of the world's bird species, as many struggle in heavily human-dominated environments. In a study published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, researchers at ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found. Their study, published in Nature ...

COLUMBIA — Visitors learned about different bird species and participated in activities at an "All About Birds" event from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site. Attendees at ...