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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

RSPB workers say it "amazing" that the female pied flycatcher has been found thriving after so long. They say the previous oldest was nine years and seven days old. It was spotted by British Trust ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...