The hyper-arid coastal desert of Peru is an unlikely place to find the electric-blue and brilliant scarlet feathers of tropical rainforest parrots. Yet, during a 2005 excavation at the religious ...

You might think that the neotropics are one big mating party, but even in places that stay green and vibrant year-round, ...

In a climate-controlled chamber in South Africa, a trumpeter hornbill pants rapidly, its throat pouch fluttering as ...

Humans are not the only species negatively affected by increasingly hot and humid conditions. Intense heat waves sometimes ...

LE JARDIN DU ROI, Seychelles (AP) – The green parrots that live on the tropical paradise of Seychelles fly into the bamboo stalks next to Micheleine Georges’ 150-year-old farmhouse at dusk. The birds ...

Tropical birds have a reputation of being flashier and more interesting than the birds in the backyards. At least that was ...

Tropical birds have a reputation of being flashier and more interesting than the birds in our backyards. At least that was ...

A team led by Michigan Technological University researcher Jared Wolfe is the first to uncover why long-lived rainforest birds are declining in an untouched environment historically considered a ...

For social animals, communication is a key that unlocks the benefits of group living. It's well known that animals with more complex social lives tend to have more intricate ways of communicating, ...