For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain ...

For roughly a decade, a quiet mystery played out across two remote Japanese island chains. Birds that looked virtually ...

What looked like one species was actually two - scientists reveal a newly identified bird in Japan after years of research.

Hidden in plain sight, a new bird species, the Tokara leaf warbler, emerges from DNA evidence, revealing more vulnerable populations.

A new species, the Tokara Leaf Warbler, was identified using DNA and song differences, splitting the Ijima’s Leaf Warbler ...

Researchers from Uppsala University revealed the Tokara Leaf Warbler, a new bird species, on March 17 ...

Scientists have identified the Tokara Leaf Warbler in Japan, the country’s first new bird species since 1982. DNA and song ...

Whether it's a wave or a thumbs up, in the animal kingdom it's usually only humans that perform wordless gestures to communicate. But new research from the University of Tokyo reveals that a clever ...

Birds never cease to amaze observers with their versatile intelligence. Flying birds experience time and space in radically different ways than humans; urban birds like pigeons adapted with remarkable ...

Diplomatic ties between Japan and China are often tense, but in a sign of a recent thaw the Asian neighbors could cooperate to save an endangered species of bird. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is likely ...