The droppings of one of this year's BBC Springwatch stars will be analysed as part of a conservation project. Viewers have ...

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

Bird brains might pay the ultimate price for climate change, science says. Pied flycatchers make an annual road trip from sub-Saharan Africa to northern Europe to chow on caterpillars, build nests ...

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 ...

In an article in the leading scientific journal Nature, researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden describe how they mapped the genomes of the European pied flycatcher and the collared flycatcher ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Viewers have been treated to glimpses of the pied flycatcher at the National Trust-owned Longshaw Estate in the Peak District during the show, hosted by Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan.