The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to change the status of the golden conure, an Amazonian bird related to the parrot, from endangered to threatened, and will allow for the import and export of the bird in certain cases following a settlement with the American Federation of Aviculture.
Read moreWhite storks that have nested in Poland are heading south for the winter earlier than usual after an especially hot, dry summer, a development experts are linking to climate change.
Read moreSpacewalking cosmonauts set up an antenna for tracking birds on Earth and sent a series of tiny satellites flying from the International Space Station on Wednesday.
Read moreU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday will list the hyacinth macaw, a bird that lives mostly in Brazil, as endangered due to habitat loss from deforestation in the Amazon and climate change.
Read moreJust in time for the piping plovers to fledge this fall, New York and American Bird Conservancy have resolved a 2016 federal lawsuit over what to do with a community of feral cats at Jones Beach.
Read moreHighlighting threats that the brilliantly colored parrot faces from the pet trade and deforestation, wildlife advocates brought a lawsuit to ensure federal protection of the scarlet macaw.
Read moreThe Wetlands Preservation Foundation claims the California Department of Water Resources and The Nature Conservancy are negligently failing to preserve Staten Island in California, a 9,000-acre island in the San Joaquin Delta that is a roosting site for sandhill cranes, in San Joaquin County Court.
Read moreRising Arctic temperatures force barnacle geese to rush north along their migration routes, but speeding up their trip is not helping their reproduction according to research published Thursday.
Read moreIt’s a marvel of ecology as shorebirds migrating from South America to the Arctic time a stop critical to their survival to this mass crab spawning. It’s also one of the world’s hot spots for bird flu — a bonanza for scientists seeking clues about how influenza evolves so they just might better protect people.
Read moreA recently discovered frog species in Nevada and a unique singing sparrow are being eyed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to federal regulators.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice scorched the country Malta on Thursday for its unrestrained and poorly supervised scheme that allows residents to trap seven species of finch.
Read moreRaptors Are the Solution sued the California Department of Pesticide Regulation on Wednesday for renewing the registrations of seven rodenticides “without initiating the re-evaluation process pursuant to state law,” in Alameda County Court.
Read moreJust three months after the Trump administration defeathered a 100-year-old bird law, a pipeline operator won permission to clear trees in nesting season. Conservationists brought a federal complaint Thursday to restore the status quo.
Read moreA recidivist bird smuggler, Sony Dong, 56, of Westminster, Calif., was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for smuggling endangered Asian songbirds into the United States again, in “deplorable” conditions.
Read morePolice were called to investigate a domestic disturbance in a southern German town — and found a man arguing with a parrot.
Read moreA Native American feather dancer asked the U.S. government Thursday to end its restrictions on tribes using eagle feathers in religious ceremonies.
Read moreThe greater sage grouse is once again at the center of a heated land-use dispute, pitting environmentalists against industry representatives seeking to develop natural resources.
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Critically endangered whooping cranes annually traverse a 2,485-mile corridor between Texas, where they winter, and their nesting grounds in Canada. But the habitat they rely on as they migrate is being lost at an alarming rate to agriculture and development, and the birds’ widely scattered movements make it difficult for conservationists to identify key areas for protection.
Read moreZookeepers in Prague have turned into puppeteers in an effort to save the critically endangered Javan green magpie.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that a tiny southwest songbird has avoided extinction, as its numbers have soared with conservation efforts.
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