The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

There are always exceptions, and perhaps you’ve had an especially rewarding bird sighting this fall, but generally, it has ...

When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it ...

Dark-eyed juncos, a bird that typically live in mountain forests, have established thriving populations in Southern California cities, where they eat food people leave behind. A UCLA biologist ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. The theory goes like this: To reconcile our ...

Q: I’m happy that the juncos are back, and want to put out foods they like. What do you recommend? A: You could attract dark-eyed juncos in a couple different ways. One would be to plant native plants ...

This month, the Garden Palette is offering something different. Gardens attract insects and insects attract birds. If you are new to the area, here are some tips by Dan and Barbara Gleason, owners of ...

Human snow birds, my friends from Lake Villa included, are off to Florida, but avian snow birds are right here in northern Illinois. They’ll be with us until at least early April, if not longer. They ...

About the Mural: In this mural by artist Cern, a Dark-eyed Junco and Blue-winged Warbler perch amid a landscape blooming with native plants: black-eyed Susan, woodland sunflower, swamp milkweed, ...