The sex frequently neglected by birders and scientists takes the spotlight in the Audubon Photography Awards’ Female Bird Prize Carlyn Kranking | Associate Web Editor, Science A female American ...

Source: fir0002, via Wikimedia Commons. Traditionally, birdsong has been viewed as a male trait, and this bias has dominated research on the behavior. “For a long time, scientists thought that female ...

Female birds sing. That is one conclusion of our 2020 study on one of the most abundant, widespread, well-studied bird species in the world: the barn swallow. Despite the well over 1,000 scientific ...

A green honeycreeper spotted on a farm in Colombia exhibits a rare biological phenomenon known as bilateral gynandromorphism. By Emily Anthes Colombia is a bird watcher’s paradise. Its stunningly ...

In a forest of Colombia, a multi-colored bird waited its turn to approach the bird feeder. When it finally came close, the onlooking scientists were stunned. On its left side, the green honeycreeper ...

Scientists just recently decided to study female birds. What they found astounded them. Some female birds, like the two red-legged honeycreepers (Cyanerpes cyaneus) pictured above in Costa Rica, have ...

Male and female birds are often quite different. Looking at two individuals of radically different color, it’s sometimes easy to forget this. I often talk to people who think they have multiple kinds ...

Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations When we hear the beautiful call of a bird from a high bough, we’re told it’s likely to be a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. I’ve long wondered why so many ornithologists, conservation ...