Us Brits (yes, IFLScience is British) are well-known for our love of animals, and we certainly seem to have a soft spot for our feathery friends that visit our gardens. More than half of British ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. I ran across a sweet little paper in Science recently that ...

Evolution works very slowly—except when it doesn’t. New research shows that certain British birds appear to be changing quickly as result of bird feeders, evolving longer beaks to help them access the ...

ORNITHOLOGY, judged by its voluminous and ever-increasing literature, is to be regarded as one of the most attractive branches of natural science studied in the British Isles, and the works devoted to ...

MODERN books about British birds are legion, most of them excellent, yet the most scientific of ornithologists looks back on certain books of his boyhood with a sigh of loving regret. Such, no doubt, ...

FOR SOME city-dwellers there was at least one pleasing consequence of lockdown: the sharp drop in noise pollution meant that the chirps and trills of wood pigeons, sparrows, owls and finches could be ...