VALLEY PARK, Mo. — A rare seasonal visitor to Missouri is recovering at the World Bird Sanctuary after being hit by a car. The World Bird Sanctuary says that a Northern saw-whet owl, one of the ...

A new generation of birdwatchers are applying the same skillset they used to hunt Pokemon to finding their favourite feathered friends. And their efforts are helping to track the status of some rare ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

If you’ve seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa’s Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.

Two new species of bird-dropping crab spiders have been discovered in Malaysia and the Philippines, according to a study. Polina Koroleva Unsplash A scientist has discovered two new species of crab ...

Birders are going cuckoo for a rare sight on Long Island. The common cuckoo bird has been spotted only four times in U.S. history in the lower 48 states, experts say. Now, it's in Riverhead. Hundreds ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Arctic seals face extinction as climate change melts sea ice, with harp, hooded and bearded seals moved to higher ...

PARADISE, MI – Fall migration is coming in floods – and with a few surprises – across Lake Superior as songbirds make their way to the flyways along Michigan’s shorelines. The showstopper of the week ...

Bird populations have been consistently dropping for decades, so it is a marvelous triumph when species make comebacks. According to The Conversation, many species of birds have faced the consequences ...

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