Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

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

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Migrant birds were early, temperatures were warm, frogs and turtles were sunning themselves, and then … it stopped. Now, a couple of weeks later, signs of life are again plentiful. The grass is ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

You might not be thrilled to have a Cooper's hawk in your yard, as they pose a significant threat to smaller birds, namely Rock Pigeons and Mourning Doves. On the other hand, some hawks in your yard ...

leading the birds to die of starvation. Worryingly, there has been no sign of the bird populations recovering in the years since. "Whether the warming comes from a heat wave, El Niño, Arctic sea ice ...

Mallard ducks are one of the many species of birds that congregate at Burton's Pond on Memorial University's St. John's campus. (Mark Quinn/ CBC) Memorial University has put up more signs on it's ...

"Clinical signs included increased mortality. State officials have quarantined the affected premises," the USDA said of the flock. Scientists classify bird flu viruses by which kind of two key ...