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Trees of all kinds benefit birds, whether it’s providing food, shelter, nesting material, or a convenient perch. Even dead trees and snags are useful, hosting insects for food and cavities for shelter ...

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For nearly 200 years evolutionarily-minded scientists have tried to create a tree of life for all species on earth. The hope has been to show who is related to whom, and how far back in time, but ...

Classifying birds by plumage and other anatomical features served scientists well over the centuries, but genetic analyses have opened up a world of detail about avian family ties. An international ...

The most ambitious effort yet to trace the evolutionary history and geography of living birds is ruffling the feathers of some old ideas. For the first time, the new avian family tree places each of ...

Coffee grown under a tree canopy is promoted as good habitat for birds, but recent University of Delaware research shows that some of these coffee farms may not be as friendly to our feathered friends ...

An ambitious genetic analysis of deep avian history strongly supports some counterintuitive ideas about bird evolution that differ from the species groupings familiar in field guides. Falcons are more ...