The Little Rock Zoo announced this week that it had closed its Tropical Bird House to the public in response to confirmed ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

Christina Riehl, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will present “Biology and Conservation of Tropical Birds: Linking Life History to Ecology” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Ornithologists Henry Pollock (left) and Jeff Brawn (right) tested the temperature tolerance of tropical birds across habitats within Neotropical forests, finding a greater range of tolerance than ...

The purple gallinule, native to the Caribbean, landed in Houlton but was fatally injured by the cold. Several off-course ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock Zoo officials said they are taking steps to protect their birds from the avian flu. According ...

First a wild flamingo showed up on Cape Cod, an appearance that one specialist described as “monumentally rare.” Over the weekend, a second tropical bird was spotted far from home, but seemingly home ...

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

March 11 (UPI) --Four Dominican nationals have been sentenced for attempting to smuggle tropical birds from San Juan, Puerto Rico, into the Dominican Republic, and then drowning them to "cover up ...