(CNN) — A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last ...

When Fiji-based photographer Tom Vierus was busy taking pictures of the birds on Papua New Guinea’s New Britain ... the IUCN Red List – on which the bird is classed as a vulnerable species ...

BANGKOK – A hawk-eyed photographer has thrilled scientists by snapping a photo of a threatened bird of prey in Papua New Guinea, more than five decades since it was last officially documented ...

An egret that clearly had places to be stunned scientists conducting what they believe to be the first-ever GPS tracking ...

CANBERRA, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have, for the first time, tracked the epic journey of a young plumed egret that flew nonstop from Australia to Papua New Guinea in about 38 hours.