There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

The different finch species on the islands are closely related to each other, but show wide variations in beak and body size and feeding behaviour. In particular, changes to the size and shape of the ...

In fact, the region is home to 45 types of marine birds and 22 land birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like ...

the Grants and their assistants watched the struggle for survival among individuals in two species of small birds called Darwin's finches. The struggle is mainly about food -- different types of ...

But survival on Wolf Island is tougher for the ground finch species, Geospiza septentrionalis. These small birds are unable to leave the safety of the plateau to find food, but on the island there is ...

While actual road rage is primarily a human trait, some birds on the Galápagos Islands ... is home to a large number of unique and endemic species including giant Galápagos tortoise, marine ...

On his visit to the islands in 1835, Charles Darwin noticed the slight differences between the same types of animal on ... For example, the finches on one island have pointy beaks for catching ...

Even exposure to just a handful of cars on a regular basis changed the birds’ habits ... At each site, they played two different types of audio recordings: one with the sound of a male ...

Banner image of a Galapagos ... birds that we once thought were lost will start to reappear again,” Cruz added. The project ...

Far from the mainland and one another, the Galapágos Islands host animals with distinctive traits, such as the notched shell of Pinzón Island’s saddleback giant tortoise. Tui De Roy / Minden ...