The American Bird Conservancy sued the Department of Energy and Army Corps of Engineers in federal court, claiming their funding and authorization of the offshore Icebreaker Wind Project in Lake Erie “presents serious risks to millions of birds and bats per year that migrate through the Project area.”
Read more
Eight fluffy macaroni penguin chicks have been born at the Kansas City Zoo.
Read more
A government experiment to kill barred owls to bolster Oregon’s threatened spotted owls got a green light from the Ninth Circuit last year. Now, environmental groups are once again taking aim at the controversial program, this time claiming it also harms the very birds it is intended to protect.
Read more
Scientists have discovered the missing link between modern penguins and their ancient ancestors who lived more than 60 million years ago, identifying a new species Monday that lived beside its human-sized penguin cousins.
Read moreA French court has allowed a group of ducks in the southwest of the country to keep on quacking after complaints from neighbors over their noisy behavior, at least pending a detailed investigation of noise levels.
Read more
Birds of a feather flock together, but research published Tuesday in the American Physics Institute journal Chaos looks for the leaders that determine where the seemingly headless group moves.
Read more
Archaeologists combing through dinosaur fossil sites in Japan have discovered a previously unknown bird species that soared through the skies over 120 million years ago. The pigeon-sized bird holds clues to the evolution of modern birds, according to a study released Thursday.
Read more
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will not list the California spotted owl as an endangered species.
Read more
Midway Atoll is a haven for many species of seabirds and home to the largest colony of albatross in the world. It is littered with bird skeletons with plastic protruding from their decomposing bellies.
Read more
Climate change has offset the internal clocks of migrating birds, which are shedding their winter feathers and laying their eggs earlier in the year.
Read more
Wildlife biologists say a record number of wild California condor chicks have been documented this year in the U.S. Southwest with the discovery earlier this month of No. 5, a nestling found in Grand Canyon National Park.
Read more
After 34 years on the endangered species list, the least tern, a tiny Midwestern bird, is ready to fly free of federal protection.
Read more
Bald eagles are dying from a new disease that mimics the symptoms of hepatitis C in humans and has been found in birds across the country, according to research released Friday.
Read more
A federal judge handed a victory to conservationists Wednesday, finding the Trump administration’s plan to boost energy development, mining and construction in greater sage grouse habitat should be halted while the two sides argue the merits.
Read more
Why do birds of a feather stick together, even when it would be better for both if they set one another free? Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday analyzes the costs of cooperation in long-term mating birds to explain the evolutionary origin of post-coital couples.
Read more
The federal government said Tuesday it will remove the Kirtland’s warbler from its list of protected species, finding the small, yellow-bellied songbird had recovered more than half a century after being designated as endangered.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Tuesday protected 30,010 acres of critical habitat for the endangered Southern Mountain caribou, rather than the 300,000 acres the Center for Biological Diversity sought in a lawsuit.
Read more
Wild bird populations in the United States and Canada have shrunk by 2.9 billion, or one in four, in the last 50 years, according to a new study published Thursday.
Read more
Scientists for years have believed neonicotinoid pesticides are responsible for catastrophic declines in the bee population, but a new study indicates one type of poison could also be responsible for the dramatic decline in migrating birds.
Read moreSettling down this week after months on the run, a rouge emu known as Eno is closer to being captured by authorities the bird has thus far evaded in the center of North Carolina, according to Orange County officials.
Read more