When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when ...

Dark-eyed juncos, a bird that typically live in mountain forests, have established thriving populations in Southern California cities, where they eat food people leave behind. A UCLA biologist ...

When students vanished during the pandemic from the University of California, Los Angeles, the beaks on its campus songbirds ...

This post was updated Nov. 6 at 11:17 p.m. Most people would not think twice about seeing a bird on UCLA’s campus. However, for researchers in the Yeh Lab, many of the birds are anything but ordinary.

A familiar winter visitor, the dark-eyed junco uses remarkable senses and navigation skills that make this modest backyard ...

Human snow birds, my friends from Lake Villa included, are off to Florida, but avian snow birds are right here in northern Illinois. They’ll be with us until at least early April, if not longer. They ...