The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million years ago—was recently found in Pennsylvania. A hybrid ...

The new hybrid songbird, affectionately called the "tanabeak," was found in the western Pennsylvania woods in June 2020. Using genomic sequencing and audio of the bird's song, researchers were ...

As you can see, the quality of his bird photographs improved dramatically. “On May 7 of this year, I took pix and videos all afternoon at the birdhole and the hybrid appeared twice for about 20 ...

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The birds, known as golden-crowned manakins, are the first-known avian species to have originated from the hybrid offspring of two other living species. The golden-crowned manakin is named for the ...

Penn State researchers have identified a rare hybrid of two western Pennsylvania songbirds. The bird is a combination of the rose-breasted grosbeak and brightly-colored scarlet tanager.