COIMBATORE, India — To better understand Equatorial Guinea’s tropical birds, ornithologists Luke L. Powell and Patricia Rodrigues scan the ground rather than the trees. They are searching for nests of ...

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 ...

World Migratory Bird Day 2024 (11 May) shines a spotlight on the relationship between migratory birds and insects amidst alarming declines for both. World Migratory Bird Day is a global campaign that ...

Many tropical insects are already close to their heat tolerance limits, raising concerns that rising temperatures could disrupt ecosystems.

In A Nutshell A researcher on a small Panama Canal island spotted a hot pink katydid near a research station light late one ...

Migrating birds shown with spectrograms of the calls they use in flight, which researchers captured via acoustic monitoring complemented their radar data on migration patterns. Every year, billions of ...

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 ...

Up to half of the insects in the Amazon region could be exposed to life-threatening heat levels due to progressive, anthropogenic global warming. This is shown by a recent study by the universities of ...

CLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- A tropical bird was spotted in Pennsylvania for the first time. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said a limpkin, which is mostly found in Florida, the Yucatán Peninsula of ...

Early on a cool, smoky June morning, researchers Alexis Grinde and Annie Bracey load up with gear and strike out across a grassland south of Moorhead, Minnesota. They’re gathering data to better ...