Surrounded by green mountains, the Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge is covered in fertile wetlands and taro farms, a remarkable habitat for rare and endangered birds. Visitors routinely stop to admire ...

The White-bellied Heron (WBH), the world's second-largest heron, is a symbolic bird for the people of Bhutan and also a ...

IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The ...

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

The Department of Conservation is defending its trapping methods after images of a dead kiwi in a pest trap raised questions ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is one of several annual counts that help researchers to better understand bird species.

Students at Sacred Heart School in Washington DC are helping to protect important habitat for birds, while learning about migration and making their own connections to far away places where their ...

Researchers said the key threats to migratory birds include habitat loss, cattle grazing in bird habitats, domestic duck farming and conservation mismanagement. They underscore the need for a ...

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...

Researchers employed a method called “experimental translocation” to understand how species interact with new environments by releasing the birds at various distances in different habitats ...