The Audubon of Kansas sued the Trump administration to do fulfill its commitment to a wildlife refuge, where water rights are draining the Rattlesnake Creek sub-basin and making it difficult for threatened and endangered birds to survive.
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A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake.
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A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 8,000-mile Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it.
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The interior least tern, a hardy Midwestern bird that survived a craze for its plumage and dam-building that destroyed much of its habitat, has soared off the endangered species list.
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French producers of foie gras called Thursday for a mass preventive cull of ducks to try to halt the spread of a severe strain of bird flu that is ripping through poultry farms in the southwest of the country.
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Conservationists and legal experts blasted the Trump administration’s rollback of protections for migratory birds Tuesday as a last-minute gift to industry at the expense of the environment which could complicate the Biden administration’s environmental policy goals.
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Since learning to capture birds as a teen, Muhammad Rafiq has amassed a small fortune in Pakistan trapping and trafficking falcons — including some endangered species — for wealthy Gulf Arabs.
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A swan mourning the death of its companion on a German railway track held up 23 trains for almost an hour and had to be removed by firefighters using special equipment, police said.
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A newly discovered, 110-million-year-old theropod’s elaborate appearance, including pairs of blades protruding backwards from its shoulders, suggest the bright plumage and courtship displays seen in today’s birds may date further back than scientists previously believed.
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In the latest legal tussle over much-litigated protections for the northern spotted owl, environmental groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday for missing mandatory deadlines to review the bird’s protected status as its population decline accelerates.
Read moreIn a dispute arising from the development of luxury resort community Tejon Mountain Ranch, a federal court in California ruled against conservationists challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s finding that the California condor is not a “traditional cultural property” under federal law and could be incidentally taken during the building of the development.
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On a recent sunny morning in New York a few dozen people gathered in Central Park’s wooded Ramble area with a common goal: zero in on an elusive owl.
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Scientists have unlocked the evolutionary secrets behind the wood warbler in an effort to understand why there are so many different species of the songbird, according to new research revealed Monday.
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The Trump administration moved forward Friday on gutting a longstanding federal protection for the nation’s birds, over objections from former federal officials and many scientists that billions more birds will likely perish as a result.
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The avian fossil, found in what is now Madagascar, offers insight into the evolution of the faces of modern birds.
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The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal court ruling.
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Dozens of parrots stuffed into plastic water bottles have been discovered on a ship docked in Indonesia’s Papua region, authorities said Friday.
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French bird hunters that use an old, but controversial, technique to trap wild birds with glue won a legal victory on Thursday when a European magistrate found the practice acceptable on cultural grounds.
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Many songbird parents give nestlings the boot well before they’re ready. But it’s not bird-child abuse — it’s for a greater genetic good.
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In a trio of studies released Wednesday, scientists revealed major breakthroughs in the research of animal genomes — their most detailed look at vertebrate evolution yet.
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