Most long-tailed finches in Australia today have bright red bills, with the color coming from carotenoid (yellow) pigments in ...

These birds need a man to help about the nest, but still want options when choosing the best sperm to fertilise their eggs. Cheaters never win, except when they don’t get caught. Australian ...

Multilocus genealogical approaches are still uncommon in phylogeography and historical demography, fields which have been dominated by microsatellite markers and mitochondrial DNA, particularly for ...

When the avian uprising inevitably occurs, humans will be wise to defect immediately to the Bird Army. A new study suggests that certain species of birds in Australia have figured out a way to spread ...