Birds catch the public imagination like no other group of animals; in addition, birders are perhaps the largest non-professional naturalist community. Genomics and associated bioinformatics have ...

Avian vision represents a fascinating interplay between anatomical specialisation and ecological adaptation, offering insights that extend from evolutionary biology to applied technological innovation ...

IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The ...

In a recent study in Nature, researchers report significant changes in the ecology and evolution of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses using a combination of spatial, epidemiological, ...

A male lesser scaup at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center in Maryland. This bird was not part of this new research. Photograph taken in 2017. Credit: Jeffrey Sullivan, USGS. For the first time ...

1. Frugivores shape plant communities via seed dispersal of fleshy-fruited plant species. However, the structural characteristics that frugivores impart to plant communities are little understood.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—While the U.S. and Canada have lost approximately a quarter of bird life—or 2.9 billion breeding adult birds—since 1970, Mississippi State researchers are finding ways to improve ...

A Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station scientist and associate research professor in Mississippi State University's Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture is being ...

South Georgia’s breeding population of female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) may have been halved by highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV), finds research published in ...

What would you contribute to the world of ecology and evolution if you could access the combined wisdom of faculty from more than a dozen disciplines that span the earth, biological and computational ...