The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...

leaving mainly large, tough seeds that the finches normally ignore. Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for ...

the common cactus finch (<i>Geospiza scandens</i>) that has a large, pointed beak and feeds on medium-sized seeds and cactus pollen; and the large ground finch (<i>Geospiza magnirostris</i>) that ...

This gene is most strongly expressed in the large ground finch (Geospiza magnirostris), which uses its robust beak to crack open large seeds and nuts. In other finches, a gene expresses a protein ...

For example, the cactus finch has a long beak that reaches into blossoms, the ground finch has a short beak adapted for eating seeds buried under the soil, and the tree finch has a parrot-shaped ...

A close up of the large ground finch <i>Geospiza magnirostris ... and colleagues was titled, "A beak size locus in Darwin's finches facilitated character displacement during a drought." ...