The authors pieced together the long history of parrots in the genus Amazona, focusing on two species — the Cuban (Amazona leucocephala; upper) and Hispaniolan (A. ventralis; lower) parrots — for ...
On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...
In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds. Working with fossils and ...
THE Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival, observed annually between April 22 (Earth Day) and May 22 (International Day for Biological Diversity), is focusing this year on bird conservation. The theme: ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail are not in the Americas, but Africa and the South Pacific, ...
Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones of a Creighton's caracara from a flooded sinkhole on Great Abaco Island ...
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