Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical ...

Radar data from Colombia reveals how tropical winds shape bird migration and pose new challenges for conservation.

AMITYVILLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- They're a long way from home. As CBS 2's Carolyn Gusoff reported, a colony of tropical parakeets can be found on Long Island, providing a thrill for Suffolk County ...

How Tropical Birds Took Over This European Capital. After a small group of parakeets were released from a zoo in Brussels in the 1970s, their numbers soared.

Yet, in a first-of-its-kind study, University of Illinois researchers show both temperate and tropical birds can handle acute heat stress much better than expected.

Consider the globe, spinning silently in space. Its poles and its middle, the equator, remain relatively stable, thermally speaking, for the duration of Earth’s annual circuit around the sun. The ...

Tropical birds expend less energy at rest than do birds living in more northern climates, according to a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Parrots, toucans, and other brightly colored tropical birds are typically found exactly there–the tropics. Those that live further north and south tend to have more bland feathers.

Climate change is having a profound impact on global animal populations, and as the results of a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicate, ...