Researchers can now predict the number of offspring a bird will have based on its prolactin and corticosterone levels. Some animals produce more offspring than others. Hormones like prolactin and ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from the University of Reading highlights how climate change is having a detrimental effect on an endangered tropical bird population. Researchers looked at the Mauritius ...

A new analytical method is revealing how conservationists can further boost breeding programmes dedicated to saving some of the world’s most threatened species, according to new research led by the ...

The breeding seasons of wild house finches are shifting due to climate change, a Washington State University researcher has found. The breeding seasons of wild house finches are shifting due to ...

South Florida water managers approved a breeding program for an endangered Everglades sparrow that for decades has fluttered at the center of the debate over how to move water into parched marshes to ...

The dunlin - a wading bird - is on the UK's red list of threatened species An endangered wading bird has been breeding among peat bogs, a survey has discovered. An RSPB survey found dunlin chicks - ...

Now that spring is in the air, the UK is starting to see its summer visitors arriving. Ospreys are already back in their nests, chiffchaffs are singing their song to re-establish their territories, ...

For the second year in a row, researchers have spotted purple-crowned fairywrens – small birds that dwell near creeks and rivers in northern Australia – reproducing outside their usual breeding season ...