In Los Angeles, Rich Neighborhoods Enjoy More Street Trees and a Lot More Birds
July 07, 2020 —
City-owned trees—especially native species—offer important habitat for urban birds, a study finds. But the benefits aren't evenly distributed.
The Bird World Is Grappling With Its Own Confederate Relic: McCown's Longspur
July 02, 2020 —
A grassland species named for an ornithologist who later became a Confederate general, the longspur has sparked a fiery debate over which honorific bird names should be reconsidered. Some say all of them.
How a White-throated Sparrow's New Tune Went Viral
July 02, 2020 —
A modified dialect of male song began in a local population in western Canada and, in two decades, traveled to birds more than 1,800 miles away.