A new study has discovered that birds in the Galápagos Islands are changing their behavior due to traffic noise, with those frequently exposed to vehicles showing heightened levels of aggression.

Out in the Pacific Ocean, 620 miles off the coast of Ecuador, lies a chain of volcanic islands that harbor some of the most diverse and unique animal species on the entire planet. The Galapagos ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Birds use song during territorial defence as an aggressive signal,” Caglar Akcay, a study co-author and behavioral ecologist at ...

A tiny black bird was spotted on a Galápagos island for the first time in nearly 200 years — when Charles Darwin first discovered it. The Galápagos Rail, considered a near-endangered species, has ...

Charles Darwin observed the Galápagos Rail on Floreana Island during his famous visit to the archipelago in 1835. It was never seen again on the island until recently, courtesy of the Floreana Island ...

The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers ...

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