When Mary Alice Tartler saw a bird on her friend’s feeder, she was stumped. After calling in other birding experts, they ...

Despite their perceived rarity, hybrids of highly diverged bird species “are popping up more and more,” says Baldassarre. “Birds hybridize a lot, so the more that we look for this, the more ...

Perhaps the bird is just a very strange chat and not a hybrid at all. But other ornithologists, including San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory’s senior biologist Alvaro Jaramillo, agree with the ...

Toronto: Scientists have discovered the first known hybrid bird species to be found in the Amazon rainforest—a golden-crowned manakin with yellow feathers. Through a series of genetic and other ...

A Pennsylvania birder spotted the bird of a lifetime in his backyard this past spring—it was a hybrid of three species across two genera in a single bird. He’d found a three-in-one warbler.