A black and white Woodpecker scratching on the dead tree. small black darwin finch hopping through the vegetation and feeding on the ground on the Galapagos islands in the pacific ocean. small black ...

Researchers travel in the Galapagos Islands to tag finches in ... A female Darwin’s medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) courtesy of Andrew Hendry. Podos also hoped to test female finches ...

The mating song of a male Darwin’s medium ground finch. CREDIT: Audio–Jeff Podos. Image–Andrew Hendry. Using decades worth of quantitative research on the changes that the beaks of Darwin ...

The beaks of Darwin’s medium ground finches can evolve to crush ... droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands, scientists have said.

Over the past three decades, researchers have observed that the beak of the Medium Ground Finch has become smaller. The genomic sequencing shows that this is due to genes transferring from the Small ...

Over the three decades studied, the beak of the Medium Ground-Finch has become smaller. Using the genomes of all the finches on Daphne, the researchers show that this results from genes ...

Locally extinct cactus finches and geckos are now "thriving" in their restored habitats, according to biologists who recently traveled to the Rabida and Pinzon islands in the Galapagos to monitor ...

Using radio transmitters, scientists have gained new insights into the behavior of medium ground finches in the Galapagos Islands. A study reveals daily movement patterns covering an area ...

Using radio transmitters, scientists have gained new insights into the behaviour of medium ground finches in the Galapagos Islands. A study led by McGill University researchers reveals daily ...

For example, studies have shown the average beak size of the Galapagos medium ground finch has changed over time in response to seed size, which is in turn influenced by rainfall. Our research ...