Bird populations in the tropics have dropped by roughly a third (25-38 percent) since 1980 due to intensifying heat extremes, compared to a world without climate change, with some species having ...

The hyper-arid coastal desert of Peru is an unlikely place to find the electric-blue and brilliant scarlet feathers of tropical rainforest parrots. Yet, during a 2005 excavation at the religious ...

(CNN) — From the rainforests of Central and South America to the savannas of northern Australia, the world’s equatorial regions are home to thousands of unique bird species, from macaws to toucans to ...

Gouldian finches, endemic to northern Australia, are among the tropical birds that may be vulnerable to extreme heat. Darren Sutherland via Getty Images A recent study has found that extreme heat ...

“Climate change is so pervasive that it will affect those areas as well,” he said. Maurer said he has noticed how climate change is affecting birds in his tropical home of north Queensland, Australia, ...