However, in a new study of 'warm-blooded' endotherms, a research team found tropical birds can handle thermal variation just fine. Consider the globe, spinning silently in space. Its poles and its ...

After a small group of parakeets were released from a zoo in Brussels in the 1970s, their numbers soared. A population increase has also occurred across the continent. A rose-ringed parakeet ...

The article summarizes six years of bird survey results from a tropical forest site near Manaus, at the center of the Amazon basin, and compares the Manaus results with findings from eleven other ...

However, in a first-of-its-kind study of “warm-blooded” endotherms, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign team found tropical birds can handle thermal variation just fine. Subscribe to Technology ...

Scientists have long been puzzled about why there are more brilliantly-colored birds in the tropics than in other places, and they've also wondered how those brightly-colored birds got there in ...

Hainan has a unique tropical environment with abundant biodiversity and is home to over 400 species of birds. The island in southern China has experienced fast economic development changes over ...

One earlier study found that the tropical birds of South America were more colourful than those in North America, with European birds the least colourful. But other studies, such as one looking at ...