A distinctive songbird with feather “horns” will get another shot at being listed as endangered after a federal judge ruled Monday the government must explain why it listed the species only as threatened despite finding it could cease to exist in parts of its range within 20 years.
Read moreFor the past several years, a walk along Alaska shores has brought views of dead or dying seabirds juxtaposed with the raw beauty of rocky sea cliffs or snowcapped mountains – more victims to a changing climate according to a study published Wednesday.
Read moreCalifornia condors will soon glide through the skies in Oregon, Nevada and Northern California, if a government plan to expand the birds’ range into their original territory becomes reality.
Read moreLake trout illegally introduced into Yellowstone Lake in the 1980s have had a major impact on not just native trout, but also on other species that feed on the fish.
Read moreThe oldest known wild bird in the world has become a mother again at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. wildlife officials said.
Read moreThe federal government killed thousands of double-crested cormorants in Oregon between 2015 and 2017, and may have caused the collapse of the birds’ largest breeding colony in a bungled effort to help young salmon make it to the ocean alive. Meanwhile, state biologists say the birds just moved upriver – and eat three times more salmon.
Read moreA special airlift for thousands of baby flamingos is under way in South Africa as drought has put their breeding ground in peril.
Read moreThe San Diego Humane Society has rescued 84 cockatiels from an apartment.
Read moreBiologists are hopeful about the future of two endemic and endangered Hawaiian seabird species after a survey team found evidence of their existence on Oahu, where the birds were thought to have disappeared.
Read moreNew York officials are facing backlash after following through on a pledge to rid Jones Beach of feral cats to protect a threatened coastal bird.
Read moreCustoms officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport say they found 70 live finches hidden inside hair rollers.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed a demand by the American Anti-Vivisection Society that the U.S. Department of Agriculture protect the timberdoodle, a woodcock that is “the world’s slowest flying bird,” whose 5 mph courtship display is 235 mph slower than a peregrine falcon on the hunt.
Read moreIt took just days for the brightly colored Mandarin duck that appeared suddenly in a Central Park pond to turn both New Yorkers and visitors into a new gaggle: the quackarazzi.
Read moreA meticulous re-creation of a three decade-old study of birds on a mountainside in Peru has given scientists a rare chance to prove how the changing climate is pushing species out of the places they are best adapted to.
Read moreThe Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Forest Service, claiming its approval of 1,100 acres of logging in the Klamath National Forest near the Pacific Crest Trail will threaten protected salmon and owls.
Read morePolice in a small northern Minnesota community have been taking some strange calls about birds that seem to be intoxicated.
Read moreA newly discovered hummingbird found in the Andes mountain range in Ecuador is already critically endangered, a group of bird scientists conclude in a new study.
Read moreA federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s updated policy on public participation in the process by which the Bureau of Land Management decides whether to grant oil and gas leases in habitat of the greater sage grouse.
Read moreThe 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.
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