Researchers collected more than 3,200 fecal samples from 21 bird species on Oahu and found no evidence of native birds eating native plant seeds. A red-crested cardinal, an introduced bird species, ...

Human-caused bird extinctions are driving losses of functional diversity on islands worldwide, and the gaps they leave behind are not being filled by introduced (alien) species, finds a new study led ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Studies of island bird populations have taught us a lot about evolution, but it's hard to catch birds in the act of naturally colonizing new islands. Instead, a new study from The Auk: Ornithological ...

Introduced and invasive species can present big problems, particularly when those species are charismatic, finds a recently published paper in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Frontiers in ...

Evolving together as a community is not necessary for non-native species to fill critically important ecosystem roles, such as dispersing seeds -- tasks originally performed by now-extinct native ...

Birds are not just birds. They're also the stuff of official state lists. While most of our birds in Minnesota are native species that belong here, the state also tracks unregulated nonnative species, ...

Human-caused bird extinctions are driving losses of functional diversity on islands worldwide, and the gaps they leave behind are not being filled by introduced (alien) species, finds a new study.