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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Humans may be responsible for the extinction of nearly 1,500 species of birds, the majority of which have been wiped out since the end of the last ice age. Nearly all these extinctions are thought to ...

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 ...