This small, fairly common songbird travels between cool, boggy northern forests and warm southern regions each year. Unlike many of their warbler cousins, they are often seen foraging on the ground, not in trees, while bobbing their tail.
Eastern adults in their breeding plumage have yellow undersides with brownish gray
The Zoo’s two giant pandas look quite similar to the untrained eye. Panda keeper Mariel Lally offers some tips you can use to spot the difference!
Eye Patches Image: The pandas’ eye patches have subtle differences.
The Center for Conservation Genomics works to understand and conserve biodiversity through the application of genomics and genetics approaches.
ancient DNA, scientists can learn about genetic variation and how certain species have
A team of scientists and keepers is traveling all over the eastern United States this year to study a unique and amazing animal: the hellbender.
Eric was expecting to find 15 to 20 of them, so it would pretty much have to start
Every spring, black-crowned night herons nest at the Zoo. Scientists are tracking these birds to unravel the mystery of where they spend the winter.
approximately 100 breeding pairs arrive at the Zoo in Washington, D.C., where they have
Learn about the program to teach schoolchildren about birds while connecting them with students from across the hemisphere.
Since 1993, close to 50,000 students in 11 countries in the Western Hemisphere have
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Our team has expertise in moving elephants and have created a thoughtful plan based
The most abundant warbler in North America, the yellow-rumped warbler is an opportunistic omnivore that frequents balsam fir forests in the breeding grounds. Formerly two species, the myrtle warbler in the east and the Audubon warbler in the west, interbreed and hybridize. Ongoing genetic research may split them back into two species.
Lifespan They have an average lifespan of about seven years.
The combination of the Vietnamese mossy frog’s green body, black spots, tubercles and spines makes it look like a clump of moss, which it spends a large portion of its time pretending to be. Native to Vietnam, these frogs live in mossy caves and in the banks of rocky mountain streams.
These tree frogs have adhesive toe pads and can jump.
Always free of charge, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo is one of Washington D.C.’s, and the Smithsonian’s, most popular tourist destinations, with more than 2 million visitors from all over the world each year. The Zoo instills a lifelong commitment to conservation through engaging experiences with animals and the people working to save them.
Approaches Could Improve Clouded Leopard Breeding Why do clouded leopards seem to have
