The Tokara leaf warbler lives on a small group of volcanic islands called the Tokara Islands. These islands lie between Japan’s main islands and Okinawa in the East China Sea. They are tiny; many are ...

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A new study indicates the adaptable birds evolved into distinct lineages as isolated populations shifted to match their ...

For roughly a decade, a quiet mystery played out across two remote Japanese island chains. Birds that looked virtually identical were singing different songs. Now, researchers have confirmed what ...

What do you get when you cross an blue jay with a green jay? The answer, it seems, is a new bird hybrid that has been discovered in Texas, as reported by the University of Texas at Austin. Biologists ...

Researchers from Uppsala University revealed the Tokara Leaf Warbler, a new bird species, on March 17 Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...

With the new changes, the overall number of “lost” birds, as defined in a 2022 study, dropped to 120 from the 163 listed when ...

A team led by researchers from Princeton University, Michigan State University and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences have confirmed the discovery of a new bird species more than 15 years after the ...