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

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Bird flu infects many species, including wild animals, according to the United Nations. Ducks, quail and at least one eagle ...

Astronomers search for missing planets, a salty food movement takes hold, and it may be time to redefine the second ...

This is a fascinating display of teamwork between two parrots. On 16th February in Chongqing, a parrot accidentally fell into a rubbish bin. As the bin was quite deep, the bird became visibly anxious ...

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

A CDC study has found H5N1 bird flu antibodies in veterinarians who had no symptoms and no knowledge they had been working ...

Here are five more ways that humans have scuppered the love lives of animals.

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

This is how animal lovers discovered "Malou" in a garbage room. The precious female parrot had obviously lost a lot of feathers with its previous owner - the traumatized bird was vegetating almost ...

Larger species of parrots can outlive their owner’s capacity to care for them — or even their owners. Domesticated scarlet macaws, for instance, can reach their seventies. Parrots’ longevity, plus the ...

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 ...