"It's not just the animals." Researchers complete ambitious project with near-extinct creatures: 'Their sounds ... are ...

As global bird populations face a severe crisis, a new conservation effort in New Zealand has brought a glimmer of hope. According to a 2024 study, over 1,300 bird species are expected to go extinct ...

Learn about extinct bird species of North America, including passenger pigeons, seaside sparrows, the ivory-billed woodpecker ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

The Duchy of Cornwall said the Dartmoor Curlew Recovery Programme had been running for five years at the national park in an ...

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of the world's rarest birds made famous as the blue parrot in the 2011 ...

The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu in the film "Rio" – was born at the Centre for the Conservation of ...

BIRDS copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. "Parrots comprise one of the most endangered groups of birds, with a growing number of species nearing ...

A breeding pair of endangered takahē birds in New Zealand were found to be rearing a chick, having previously been thought of ...

Due to conservation efforts, more than 240 kākāpō live on sanctuary islands, but the species remains critically endangered. Jake Osborne via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 With its bright green feathers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Parrots are not an uncommon bird species — there are about ...