This paper uses deep learning techniques to present a novel approach for acoustic-based bird species classification. Leveraging a dataset comprising 10,955 audio samples from six distinct bird species ...

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published in 1859, introducing much of the world to evolutionary theory.

This research paper presents an innovative approach for bird species detection using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and the EfficientNet-B0 architecture. The study focuses on the application of ...

It’s the first time a Northern Lapwing has been identified in the western Algerian steppes and is considered a “passing ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

A significant breeding site for some of the UK’s rarest seabirds, including the Arctic tern, has seen the number of pairs ...

A Greater Roadrunner zoomed into view and hopped atop one of the tee boxes to survey its surroundings. I focused my ...

A National Trust managed coastal site has reported decreasing numbers of Arctic and little terns, but a rare American black ...

Second Nature, we explore how creatures across the animal kingdom - from birds and whales to crustaceans and reptiles - navigate the planet with astonishing precision. I explain the different kinds of ...

A rare bird which is the only adult record of its species ever to be recorded in the UK has returned to a nature reserve on ...

Numbers of Arctic terns nesting at a key breeding site have dropped by nearly a third this year, as experts warn climate change and disease ...