This healthy, 1-year-old male offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and scarlet tanager is the first-ever documented hybrid of its kind. The two species have such divergent nesting preferences ...

Since the hybrid thrushes couldn’t have learned that middle road, it seems that the birds were guided by a mixture of genetic instructions inherited from both parents. To pinpoint the genes ...

Less well known was his interest in bird hybrids and colour aberrations, as well as the phenomenon of 'sex reversal', for all of which he collected an impressive number of examples. Unfortunately, ...

"It appears to be a hybrid red-naped/red-breasted sapsucker," she said. The bird, whose native range extends along the Pacific coast and east to the Rockies, may have been pushed to Ohio by recent ...

A 34-year-old man has been arrested after three falcons and their eggs were found missing after a break-in. Two peregrine ...