Viral parrot videos fuel soaring demand, but behind the fame lies a deadly global trade. Conservationists reveal how social ...

For every bird that becomes a pampered internet star, countless others are snatched from the wild to feed the illegal global ...

From the bare-necked umbrellabird to the helmeted hornbill, birds come in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes and sizes. But hundreds of species could go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

Birds are vanishing at an alarming rate. Since the Late Pleistocene, thousands of species have disappeared forever. Estimates ...

It’s a new year, and what better way to kick it off than by looking back on some of the biggest conservation wins we’ve ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Dodo, the famous flightless bird that inhabited the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, is a case study in extinction caused by humans. The Dodo, finely adapted to its ...

"It's a tough time to be a bird right now," one expert said. As the United States marks National Bird Day on Jan. 5, the majority of bird species in the U.S. face a grim future in coming decades if ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Bird flu, formally called Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, HPAI, has been confirmed as the cause of mortality for the condors that have died in northern Arizona, federal wildlife officials said. To ...

More than 500 bird species face extinction within 100 years, warns new research Climate change and habitat loss could cause dozens of breeds to disappear forever within the next century, according to ...