At a ceremony at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, Hawaiians honor Chief Keaoua Kekuaokalani. He ...

"The only way to save them … is to diversify their genes." Experts celebrate as head-turning bird species makes impressive ...

Scientists have known for some time now that tropical birds are falling in number. In general, the cause has been attributed ...

A rare bird of prey that was previously saved from extinction has been spotted bringing food back to its nest near Hythe.

The humerus, pulled from a well-preserved ancient layer of sediment, belonged to a new extinct species of duck named Amazonetta cubensis, or the Cuban teal, according to a May 9 study published in the ...

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna. And, up until about a thousand years ago, it was home ...

Flightless birds have had a rough go of it over the past few centuries, with many going extinct — the most iconic being the ...

A new report found that the bird population of the United States is declining, which experts said is a major issue.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Birds that call Arizona’s desert and mountains home are disappearing fast. Conservationists warn that it ...

Three out of every four of the 500 North American bird species are in decline, a recent study found. But unlike the mass extinctions that killed off the dinosaurs, this one is driven by us.

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

We’re all used to seeing birds like pigeons on city roads, parrots that talk, or eagles flying high in the sky. But the bird ...