In the heart of the Amazon, where pristine rainforest remains largely untouched by humans, birds are shrinking. For about four decades, researchers collected and measured 77 species of birds at forest ...

Nico the Amazon parrot has found his happy place, and that place is in the middle of a torrential rainstorm. The more rain ...

Temperatures in the Amazon River city of Manaus, Brazil, were in the upper 80s this week. It's like that a lot. And from Manaus, for thousands of miles of tropical forests and savannas, the Amazon ...

The most pristine parts of the Amazon rainforest devoid of direct human contact are being impacted by human-induced climate change, according to new research. New analyses of data collected over the ...

A long-running project studying bird communities in fragments of Amazonian rainforest has summarized its findings from the past 40 years. The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) ...

From 2000-2009, scientists described on average seven new bird species worldwide every year. Discovering a new bird is one of the least common of any species group, given that birds are highly visible ...