The Madison County residents were setting up a tent when they discovered the Prairie Dog Town in the middle of their campsite ...

You won’t want to miss these incredibly cute chickadee pictures. If folks around you are speaking with a southern drawl, ...

John C. Landa Jr., the “Schulenbirder,” says that birding has been a bit slow recently but as spring approaches, be on the ...

Although the mountain chickadee is the black-capped’s closest relative, the Carolina chickadee likely will cause the most trouble, especially in late spring and summer when the black-capped’s ...

"The sense of smell has been very understudied in birds, particularly songbirds, because they frequently have such impressive plumage and song variation," says Amber Rice, an evolutionary ...

Wagner DN, Curry RL, Chen N, Lovette IJ, Taylor SA. 2020. Genomic regions underlying metabolic and neuronal signaling pathways are temporally consistent outliers in a moving avian hybrid zone.

Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina chickadees (P. carolinensis) hybridize in a narrow band that stretches from New Jersey to Kansas. Using a combination of genomic, transcriptomic, and ...