Bird evolution

Every once in a while you stumble on a new natural history book that seems destined to be a classic….

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book that…

They call it a shell pit because of the vast array of fossilized mollusks who once lived and died there,…

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that…

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of…

Birding in Israel? Report your sightings to help build an eBird-like database of the country’s avifauna. New studies find that:…

I’ve been down with an odd illness for a few weeks, and then I flew to Mexico and back (boy,…

Many, many things happened in the area of bird science this year, so this review can not be comprehensive. But…

Birds may have evolved from an ancestor with four wings. This is an idea that has been around for more…