After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year, to go extinct. The odd, flightless ...

A state-run program pays farmers to help beleaguered Loggerhead Shrikes rebound by putting more shrubby habitat back on the ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

Among the bird species in Hawaii declared extinct include the Kauai akialoa ... once, but nobody can go do that anymore,” he said on Thursday night. “They have to go to Bishop Museums and ...

Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the nineteenth century would have been familiar with ...

World Sparrow Day highlights the alarming decline of sparrows due to urbanization and pollution. Learn why they matter and ...

The feat moved the species from a "critically endangered" classification to "endangered" and, Fritz says, is the first attempt to reintroduce a continentally extinct migratory bird species.

On an overcast October morning in 2021, self-taught ornithologist Mark A. Michaels was staking out a sweetgum tree in a Louisiana forest when he spotted a bird flying below the canopy about 50 yards ...

A study shows birds worldwide make strategic decisions ... the evolutionary jackpot by producing future generations and not going extinct. "A lot of factors drive key components of life history ...