Saturday, March 21, is the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano. The cliff swallows fly from Argentina, one of the longest migrations of any species. Cliff swallows are one of more than 350 bird ...

Watching birds in your backyard during the spring is a fun pastime. If you can't see them, you can still identify them if you ...

Hidden in plain sight, a new bird species, the Tokara leaf warbler, emerges from DNA evidence, revealing more vulnerable ...

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A Tokara leaf warbler captured on Nakanoshima Island in the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture. - Photo courtesy of Takema Saito TOKYO: A new bird species has been confirmed in Japan for the first ...

In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding ...

It seems that by lacing their nests with cigarette butts, several species of birds have learned to keep pests and parasites away.

Researchers at the University of Granada and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence have demonstrated a link between urbanization and the plumage color of birds. Species that thrive in ...

Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as the nation weighs its environmental responsibilities.

Repeated road counts across South Africa show that half of the country’s surveyed raptor and large terrestrial bird species have declined significantly over recent decades, adding to a growing body of ...

A previously unknown species of leaf warbler has been discovered in Japan. The Ijima's Leaf Warbler has proven to be two different species, not just one. Every year, a few new bird species are ...

A comprehensive study has revealed substantial declines in many of South Africa's birds of prey (raptors) over the past 16 years, raising fresh concerns about the conservation status of several iconic ...