New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

Perhaps most recognizable as a Hawaiian hello, Aloha has a far deeper meaning: "love." The word is used in many contexts to ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

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Pacific allies don’t usually air their dirty laundry in public. But a rare on-the-record dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the poor and isolated island nation ...

The variant of bird flu that killed a ... spread of the virus could be non-native European starling populations, a species that was first introduced to New York City in 1890, the Nevada Department ...

On Feb. 7, New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an order to temporarily close live bird markets after cases of avian influenza, or bird flu, were detected in seven markets in Queens, Brooklyn ...

A new variant of the H5N1 bird flu has infected dairy cattle in Nevada, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. This specific genotype, D1.1, is distinct from the B3.13 genotype ...

All live bird markets in New York City and several neighboring counties were ordered to be closed on Friday after inspectors found seven cases of bird flu. New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D ...