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.
Read moreThe threatened extinction of a songbird that shares its name with a butterfly spurred a federal complaint Thursday by conservationists.
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The Kirtland’s warbler songbird has recovered sufficiently to be removed from the endangered species list, but the island marble butterfly, which lives only on an island in northwest Washington, should be protected, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge said he will likely overturn the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s withdrawal of the bistate sage grouse from a list of threatened species.
Read moreA group of inmates is tending to 200 roosters at an Arkansas sheriff’s office pending their use as evidence against 137 people arrested at a cockfight.
Read moreA third of the vultures caught and tested in the African nation of Botswana for a new study had elevated levels of lead in their blood, likely the result of them eating the flesh of animals shot by hunters using lead bullets.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity claims in a federal complaint that the streaked horned lark was improperly listed as threatened rather than endangered, though fewer than 1,600 of the songbirds survive in Oregon and Washington.
Read moreRapid growth in shale gas development through fracking has hindered the reproductive success of songbirds, according to a new study.
Read moreFront Range Nesting Bald Eagle Studies brought a federal complaint under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act for the “incidental take” permit issued by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, which allows a 16½-acre housing development within 200 yards of a breeding pair of bald eagles.
Read moreA newly described fossil of the oldest known bird is the most senior specimen of the species found so far, according to a study published Friday in the journal PeerJ.
Read moreA conservation group said Thursday it’s ready to sue the federal government for failing to protect the Tinian monarch, a songbird found only in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Read moreA new report finds post-wildfire logging harms the spotted owl, an endangered species tied to the precipitous decline of the logging industry in Northern California.
Read moreA new study says endangered owl species in Northern California are being exposed to rat poison used on illegal marijuana farms.
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The government can move forward with its plan to slaughter barred owls as part of a study to see if their absence will help imperiled spotted owls, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreFor threatened piping plovers, engineered sandbars do not offer the same benefits as natural ones, a new study finds.
Read morePittsburgh’s indoor zoo dedicated to birds has an adorable new member: a baby two-toed sloth.
Read moreFriends of the Northern San Jacinto Valley sued in Riverside County Court, challenging the county’s approval of an 11,350-home development with 70 acres of commercial space on the edge of the San Jacinto Wildlife Area, a bird sanctuary.
Read moreEnvironmentalists brought a federal complaint over two highway-widening plans, saying the projects for large trucks in Del Norte County will hurt protected bald eagles and coho salmon.
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