Five thousand chickens culled after a bird flu outbreak. Jerry Saunders runs the farm in South Devon. Release date: ...

An endangered crow, found only in Hawaii, is flying free again. The alala has survived only in captivity after almost going ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

“Elated” ecologists at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary wasted no time. Scarlet-chested parrots are “threatened and understudied,” ...

It is not a real surprise that the smallest birds in the world belong to the family Trochilidae, commonly known as hummingbirds. However, even within the hummingbird family, there are large ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid impact triggered the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. Yet, some early birds, ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

London Zoo is now home to three of the world's rarest birds as conservationists join forces to save the species from extinction. The Socorro dove, a beautiful bird endemic to a tiny island off the ...