If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study shows large fruit-eating birds in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest can contribute to a 38% increase in carbon storage by regenerating tropical ...

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...

Tropical forests may look like a uniform sea of green from above, but new research shows that carefully measured differences in forest structure and function can help explain how birds use existing ...

Humans are not the only species negatively affected by increasingly hot and humid conditions. Intense heat waves sometimes kill large numbers of wild animals. Eastern Australia's giant fruit bats, ...

Extreme heat poses grave threat to tropical birds The notion that bird populations are steeply declining is not new – a 2019 study found bird populations in the US and Canada have dropped by 30% since ...

Every year, billions of birds undertake intrepid journeys between temperate regions in North America and their tropical wintering grounds in South America. "Birds are great indicator species of ...

Bird populations in the tropics have dropped by roughly a third (25-38 percent) since 1980 due to intensifying heat extremes, compared to a world without climate change, with some species having ...

A macaw with half of its body inside a hole in a coconut tree trunk. Credit: Ângela Macário / Alamy Stock Photo An uptick in heat extremes, driven by human-caused climate change, has caused tropical ...

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This video shows a southern cassowary in tropical northern Australia, a large flightless bird with an appearance unlike most familiar birds. Its body is covered in long, coarse black feathers, while ...

Fruit eating birds such as the Red-Legged Honeycreeper, Palm Tanager, or the Rufous-Bellied Thrush play a vital role in forest ecosystems by consuming, excreting, and spreading seeds to as they move ...