Evolution

Don’t Get Too Excited, but Syrian Woodpeckers Like Pollution

Woodpeckers Tie Continents Together

(Originally published January 15th, 2014 on http://scienceofbirds.blogspot.com)

Let me weave ye a couple of yarns…

Why Taxonomy Matters

Who cares about all these esoteric Latinized words, anyway?

Of Mountains and Valleys

Another look into why South America has so many birds

Why do only some species look different?

A jaunt into a fascinating evolutionary inquiry

Barrier Valleys, Trait Divergence, & the Split of Species

What one exemplary valley tells us about the drivers of avian speciation

Of Birds, Behavior, & Climate Change

How a little European bird keeps up with climate change

Nature on Repeat

The universe is telling us something remarkable whenever it repeats itself.