Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers ...

Biologists now describe how they mapped the genomes of the European pied flycatcher and the collared flycatcher and found that it is disparate chromosome structures rather than separate ...

Twelve species breed in Sweden, of which the European robin, the pied flycatcher and the thrush nightingale are the most well-known. All except three of these species winter in sub-Saharan Africa ...

Researchers drove European pied flycatchers north from the Netherlands to Sweden, where spring arrives two weeks later and food supplies peak at the right time for newly hatched chicks.

Pied flycatchers are small, long-distance migrant birds that travel each spring from Africa to Europe to feed on bugs, nest and have offspring. READ MORE: Limiting climate change to 1.5°C ...

You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing [email protected] The war between two species of bird is gaining momentum as climate change brings great tits and pied flycatchers into increasing ...

Figure 1: Spring temperature, breeding and spring arrival date of a pied flycatcher population in the Netherlands from 1980 to 2000. Figure 2: Breeding date and spring arrival of a pied flycatcher ...

The team also cross-mated parents to create hybrid offspring and found that the fledglings still had a preference for the pied flycatcher songs. "This shows that something built-in to the genome ...

2023 hailed as best pied flycatcher breeding season at Haweswater There were between 50 and 60 breeding pairs in the reserve The RSPB said it was a "joy" to see so many migrate from West Africa 20 ...

Pied flycatcher plumage varies geographically in both its structural and pigment-based properties. Both characteristics appear to be shaped by selection. A single-locus outlier test revealed 2 of ...

An international team of researchers has found that extra-pair paternity in pied flycatchers leads to cooperation between males and females in feeding and fending off threats. In their paper ...

Twelve species breed in Sweden, of which the European robin, the pied flycatcher and the thrush nightingale are the most well-known. All except three of these species winter in sub-Saharan Africa ...