“Nightjars are among the most difficult bird species to study due to their unobtrusive and nocturnal behavior and cryptic plumage,” said lead author Sangster and his colleagues. New species found in ...

with bird watchers and nature enthusiasts reporting a total of 729 bird species across 13 districts. According to an official of the state forest department, the impressive tally of 729 includes ...

The key genes change the chemical structure of the pigment molecule through the actions of an enzyme which adds just one atom ...

Warmer winters are leading to increased reproductive effort but lower success. Global warming is impacting a one-of-a-kind bird species in Florida in a way that is surprising ornithologists, a ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred ...

some wildlife have found itself on the endangered species list. The red-cockaded woodpecker was among them. For more than 50 years, the bird was on the endangered list, at risk of going extinct.

A bird species known for their unusual migration patterns have now been declared extinct after research found these animals have not been seen since 1995. The slender-billed curlew are a bird ...

Birds aren’t distributed randomly across the globe. Instead, each habitat supports its own unique collection of bird species that have evolved to live there. Picture a deep green forest, an open ...

If you’ve ever fed the birds around your home, you’ve probably noticed that different species prefer different foods. Doves, for example, prefer seeds, while Robins tend to ignore bird feeders in ...

As a result, Slender-billed Curlew becomes only the third bird species to spend a large part of its annual cycle in the Western Palaearctic to be known to have gone globally extinct since 1500, after ...

Q: The amount of effort that goes into a Christmas Bird Count varies quite a bit across years and count circles. How do you deal with this issue when you calculate abundance trends? How do you know ...