Area of Focus: Songbirds

Researchers compared the way that snow machine noise silences bird songs in Yellowstone National Park

Biologists are using modified mosquitoes to reduce deadly avian malaria

Adaptive traits have allowed the birds to survive a harsh environment

Light pollution can be harmful to some urban birds, but robins make the most of it

Social interaction seems tied to the birds’ choice of wintering grounds

Those species may have trouble as weather becomes warmer and more unpredictable

Over the past century, the southwestern willow flycatcher’s genome has changed

Captive breeding program is finding ways to improve the success of program for endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers

Traffic noise in early life of hatchlings may be a developmental stressor

But their survival may still be at risk