Passerine (perching) birds make up 60% of all bird species, including some familiar Australian favorites, like the superb fairy-wren and willie wagtail. Until now, they were believed to only be ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to note that the co-owners of Passerine are Kyle Sollenberger and Dr. Jonathan Shirey. New York Times recently shared a list of its 50 favorite restaurants ...

The bounty of Lancaster County’s farms, fields and pastures is no secret. These harvests are frequently transported to big-city restaurants to benefit diners in Philadelphia and New York. But it’s ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — Passerine, a French-inspired American restaurant located in the heart of downtown Lancaster, was named to the New York Times (NYT) America's 50 Best Restaurants. Over the past 12 ...

Focus: Using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds Funding: Marie Curie Fellowship We are using molecular data to understand a large radiation of passerine birds, the core ...

Island systems generally have fewer species than continental areas due to their small size and geographical isolation. Low island diversity reduces the possibility of exportation of island lineages ...

The order Passeriformes—a group of birds known as passerines or perching birds, representing more than 60% of today’s bird species—originated about 47 million years ago in the South Pacific, near ...

Daurian redstarts move closer to humans to protect their nests from brood parasitism. Daurian redstarts move their nesting sites closer to or even inside human settlements when cuckoos are around. In ...

In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there lives a small bird with a white back, forked tail and – as we’ve just ...

LANCASTER CITY, Pa. (WHTM) — A Lancaster County-based restaurant that debuted last year was recently ranked among the top 50 best restaurants in the United States by the New York Times. The ...