In 2009, a group of birders noticed a tiny, gray bird feeding on mistletoe in the canopy of a tropical forest in Borneo. The creature’s short bill and stout body were characteristic of the ...

A photo of the Spectacled Flowerpecker taken in the Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, Segerak research station. While scientists and birdwatchers have previously glimpsed the small, gray bird in ...

To get to the remote Wakatobi island in Indonesia where he is studying a unique bird species, Seán Kelly has to fly from Dublin to the Middle East, fly from there to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, ...

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A new species of a tiny, colourful bird has been found by Irish scientists in a small island chain in the tropics. Zoologists from Trinity College Dublin named the new find the Wakatobi Flowerpecker ...

CEBU, Philippines - Is one of the two endemic bird species in Cebu already extinct? While the Cebu Black Shama (Copsychus Cebuensis) conservation has yielded positive results in the Nug-as forest of ...

LOOK AT THOSE three heavenly little faces, poking out of their pear-shaped nest made from crushed spider webs, egg sacs, plant down and wattle-blossom. It’s so nice to see baby birds be something ...

The Spectacled Flowerpecker wasn’t entirely unknown up until now. Scientists and birdwatchers have spotted the small, gray bird in the lowland tropical forests of Borneo in the past, with the first ...

Orange-bellied flowerpecker, Dicaeum trigonostigma, also known as the orange-breasted Flowerpecker, photographed on the island nation of Singapore. Image: Marie Louise Ng, 26 January 2011 ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and collaborators surveying the birdlife of Borneo have discovered a startling surprise: an undescribed species of bird, which has ...