There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands ... In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...

The Galápagos yellow warblers on the more populous island of Santa Cruz also increased the duration of their song when ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

The Galápagos Rail has returned after conservationists removed wild cat and rat populations that had driven out the bird ...

To biologists, a trip to the Galápagos is something of a pilgrimage to sacred evolutionary ground, for it is here in 1835 that Charles Darwin witnessed how giant tortoises, finches ... Santa Cruz, ...

A new study has discovered that birds in the Galápagos Islands are changing their behavior due to traffic noise, with those ...

The Galápagos Islands served as the site of Charles Darwin's famous ... birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... as the shape of their beaks varied. On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how the beaks of finches differed. Only later, would he realise why this ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ... Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds there, although not in enough detail ...

The Galapagos gives you quite a welcome. Perhaps one of Ecuador’s most astonishing achievements is its preservation of these islands. You really do see them as Charles Darwin did, when he ...

The Galapagos rail (Laterallus spilonota), a bird known for its elusive behavior, was observed again on Floreana Island for the first time since Charles Darwin saw it there in 1835. This species ...