More information: Juan Diego Ibáñez‐Álamo et al, Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown, Ecology Letters (2025). DOI ...

Among the birds of the world, it is usually the males who have the brightest feathers and the females who are the most drab, ...

Ornithologists at UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are recruiting volunteers for Project Phoenix, a ...

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Colorful birds thrive in cities, according to new research. Avian species that do well in urban areas have feathers of a more ...

To the “horrid brown bird” hater. It is a limpkin which eats apple snails. Several species of the apple snails are invasive in Florida. So, this bird helps our natural environment.

Colourful city birds Bird species that do well in urban areas are more colorful and less brown Date: April 9, 2025 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ...

And yes, that includes red-winged blackbirds. Of the more than 27,000 published papers analyzed for this study, red-winged blackbirds were the second-most researched species, with an astonishing ...

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07.04.2025 11:51 Colourful city birds: Bird species that do well in urban areas are more colourful and less brown Dr. Sabine Spehn Kommunikation (PR) Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Intelligenz ...

The U.S. State of the Birds Report categorizes the Bendire’s thrasher as one of 42 red-alert tipping point species, meaning the species requires immediate conservation action to ensure recovery.

'Brown shades are more common in natural environments than in cities. We suspect that brown birds are at a disadvantage in a rather grey city. The predominant colours of a city and the lack of ...