“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

Imagine a world where extinct bird species are brought back to life. Thanks to groundbreaking advancements in DNA sequencing and genetic research, this once unimaginable possibility is becoming a ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred in ...

In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the country's native bird species, some of which were ...

On New Zealand’s remote Chatham Islands, scientists have uncovered the story of a bird that defied expectations, the Rēkohu ...

Environmental historian and author Daniel Lewis will deliver a free illustrated lecture based on his book “Belonging on an Island – Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i,” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

The Guam kingfisher, or Sihek in CHamoru, is an iconic species of Guam, but can no longer be found there. Pictured here are Hinanao and his mate, Tutuhan, who came from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical ...

Scientists have set the record straight on the scientific history of the dodo more than 300 years after the bird is thought to have gone extinct. As detailed in a paper published in the Zoological ...

The slender-billed curlew has become the first ever recorded global bird extinct across three continents – Europe, Africa, ...

A once-extinct bird is laying eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. Sihek, a now-endangered bird returned to the wild in 2024, has laid wild eggs in its new home in Hawaii, according ...