The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- In his lab at Duke University, neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird’s brain on song. In one, what looks like a pointillist painting illustrates a young ...

Even fewer would have the patience to catch, weigh, measure, and identify hundreds of small birds and record their diets of seeds. But for the Grants, the rewards have been great: They have done ...