The feet of the black-capped chickadee coming to your feeder this morning are those of a passerine, a perching bird. About half of the birds in the world are passerines. They have very flexible ...

The swans, geese, ducks and mergansers do have webbed feet, but grebes and coots do not. They have lobed toes. Unlike most aquatic birds that ... of a migratory passerine species.

The passerine bird is a common host for cuckoos in northeastern China. Daurian redstarts breed twice per season -- once before and once after cuckoos arrive in the region. Cuckoos generally avoid ...

Focus: Using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds Funding: Marie Curie Fellowship We are using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds, the core ...

“The small passerine bird was flying back and forth to a nest tucked away safely behind a dense curtain of water. Of course I attempted to capture the dipper on film, but my analogue camera gear ...