Whether 'alien' bird species thrive in a new habitat depends more on the environmental conditions than the population size or characteristics of the invading bird species, finds a new study. Published ...

A global map of alien bird species has been produced for the first time by a team of researchers. It shows that human activities are the main determinants of how many alien bird species live in an ...

Tim Blackburn's research was supported in part by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Species introduced by humans to areas where they don’t naturally occur are a worldwide problem. These “alien ...