The ruff has one of the weirdest sexual systems in the world – all thanks to a large piece of chromosome that was flipped over 3.8 million years ago. A type of wading sandpiper, ruffs are named ...

David Lank, a biologist at Simon Fraser University, holds a ruff. Plumage is everything in the bird world, and for a certain type of male ruff, scientists have found that genes are responsible for ...

Click on birds to find out what they are doing! Click here (1.4 MB, MP3 format) to hear an ancient CBC radio broadcast (Quirks and Quarks) describing my earier work on the ruff Since 1984, I have ...

San Diego is amazingly birdy with its perfect weather and different habitats, including its rocky ocean shoreline, coastal marshes, rolling grasslands, scorching desert, and cool, lush mountains.

Keepers at Torquay’s coastal zoo are preparing the ground for some fierce competition. They are cutting the grass and clearing undergrowth so that one species of bird can indulge in its ...

Studies of a distinctive wading bird have identified a genetic quirk which gives rise to three types of male bird within the same species, according… ...

Leif Andersson and colleagues report the genome sequence of the ruff, a bird species with three male morphs with different reproductive strategies. Satellite and faeder morphs differ from the ...

Hence, each ruff carries at least one Independent supergene variant. In addition, male Faeders exploit the courtship efforts of the Independents, and Faeder chicks are raised primarily by female ...

Studies of a distinctive wading bird have identified a genetic quirk which gives rise to three types of male bird within the same species, according to researchers. Scientists at the University of ...