The Chathams sit roughly 785 kilometers (488 miles) east of mainland New Zealand and have long been a crucible of endemic ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, ...

Imagine my excitement when I thought I had taken a photograph of a Carolina parakeet, an extinct bird. In the spirit of full ...

Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic to islands, occupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings were the ones likely to ...

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, a bird species called the northern bald ibis, with its bald red head and long curved beak, was a common sight across Europe and North Africa until it was hunted to ...

A once-extinct bird is laying eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. Sihek, a now-endangered bird returned to the wild in 2024, has laid wild eggs in its new home in Hawaii, according ...

Environmental historian and author Daniel Lewis will deliver a free illustrated lecture based on his book “Belonging on an Island – Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i,” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred in ...

The yellow-headed Amazon parrot is now officially recognized as endangered and appears to be headed for extinction in the ...