To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Migrating birds shown with spectrograms of the calls they use in flight, which researchers captured via acoustic monitoring complemented their radar data on migration patterns. Every year, billions of ...

Gouldian finches, endemic to northern Australia, are among the tropical birds that may be vulnerable to extreme heat. Darren Sutherland via Getty Images A recent study has found that extreme heat ...

James Watson has received funding from the Australian Research Council, National Environmental Science Program, South Australia's Department of Environment and Water, Queensland's Department of ...

Tropical bird populations are crashing as temperatures soar. That’s according to a new study that found abundances of tropical birds were 25-38% lower than they would be without human-driven climate ...

“Climate change is so pervasive that it will affect those areas as well,” he said. Maurer said he has noticed how climate change is affecting birds in his tropical home of north Queensland, Australia, ...