An African sacred ibis soared across the sky. "Birds are an indicator of the happiness of an ecosystem," says the 43-year-old guide, who has been leading bird-watching tours here for the past decade.

Now, only 100,000 of the birds remain in all of South Africa and neighbouring Namibia, the only two countries where the species exists. In 2010, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) is soliciting donations to meet the cost of incubating them by inviting people to “adopt an egg.” ...

Newcastle disease, widespread in Africa, can be deadly for birds but is not dangerous for humans. The H5N1 form of bird flu can be fatal in birds and has killed more than 60 people in Southeast ...