Many species, from other birds to certain types of mice, are now known to have these supergenes. “It seems to be less common, but I think one of the things that we are learning as we have access to ...

Arctic tern numbers down nearly a third at key breeding site, experts warn - Conservationists say the ‘red-listed’ birds are ...

New research could ruffle some feathers in the birding world. It finds that Redpolls, a bird found in the Arctic that will sometimes come to the Southern latitudes during the winter and can be ...

New research from CU Boulder confirms that there are not, in fact, multiple species of Redpoll Finches, as previously thought. By Cay Leytham-Powell • Published: Dec. 2, 2021 For birders struggling to ...

Melting may also bring new opportunities to another whale species, the bowheads, which live in the Arctic full time. “They can break ice that’s 2 feet thick with their heads,” Alter says.

Melting Arctic ice is not only opening up new passageways for ships. Birds and marine species are also traveling to uncharted waters. Seabird McKeon, a marine biologist with the Smithsonian ...

By 2070, higher temperatures brought on by climate change will eliminate important Arctic breeding habitat for at least two-thirds of the 24 bird species evaluated in a study published in the ...

How does climate change influence how birds can adjust to different climate conditions worldwide? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of ...

The type of cycle each displays depends on the species, an individual's sex, and their social circumstances. Arctic residents like the reindeer and a bird called the ptarmigan don't really have a ...

Scientists and researchers have made some remarkable discoveries in 2022 with a handful of not only new species, but ones that ... on. From Arctic sharks in the ... Province of a bird-like ...

Scientists have unearthed a new bird species from fossils in the Canadian Arctic dating back about 90 million years, making them the oldest records of avian species found so far north and ...

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