It can be hard to both monitor and protect rare bird breeds, especially if they have the tendency to be out and about mostly at nighttime like this particular breed, but experts think they've finally ...

Birds are some of the most interesting animals in the world, whether they are stunning us with colorful plumage or fascinating us with unusual courtship rituals. However, although many species are ...

A rare bird that escaped from Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah has been captured. The missing bird, a juvenile East African crowned crane, escaped its enclosure Wednesday. KIRO-7 TV reports a resident ...

Eight Socorro doves have hatched at the Chester Zoo in the U.K. this year, igniting hope for the species to return to the wild one day. According to Mongabay, these birds were once found comfortably ...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Whooping Cranes, one of the most threatened birds in the United States, have found a winter home in Alabama. The Whooping Crane reached near extinction in the 1940s, with only ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...

You may not think of grassland when you think of Alabama. But you’d be wrong: Alabama is home to prairie habitat, and along with it, some of its customary birds, like this one - the Scissor-tailed ...

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction events set to occur in the next 100 years across 500 bird species. The slew ...