Magazine. WWF-Pacific / Tom Vierus Over half a century after its last sighting, a "lost species" of bird has been found—and this time, there is photographic evidence. On Sept. 13, the World ...

Even for serious bird-watchers, Black-capped Chickadees and Carolina Chickadees are tough to tell apart. Both are members of ...

In the wild, nearly 12,000 species of birds exist. Humans see them every day, but there are a handful that haven’t been ...

After observing thousands of records over decades, researchers found that birds of a feather may actually stick together ...

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior. Living around 120 million years ago, the species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis, is ...

Doka Nason / American Bird Conservancy Nearly 12,000 species of birds exist in the wild, and every day, humans document their sightings of the animals. But a handful of avian species haven’t ...

Scientists are on the hunt for over 120 species of birds that may—or may not—be extinct, and they want your help to find them. The ubiquity of smartphones has led to surge in data for birders ...

The Louisiade pitta (Erythropitta meeki) is one of the "lost" species found in 2022 and 2023 on ... [+] Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea. There had been no definite record of this bird since 1898.

New research indicates that birds are not alone while migrating—and sharing space with other species may even help them on ...

A little yellow-and-white bird that prefers to date its mates in an idyllic island lifestyle rather than fly to the mainland ...

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.