A rare species prized by birders in Southern Arizona has been unceremoniously stripped of its elegance, and at least one local expert isn’t happy about the change. A leading panel of taxonomists ...
Life in the Seychelles has always been deeply in tune with the natural world. And while the islands are justifiably famed for their beautiful beaches and pristine marine life, there’s so much more to ...
The black-necked crane is a globally rare and near-threatened bird species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.
SALINEÑO, Texas (Border Report) — Bob Bowman sometimes sees hundreds of birds every day as a caretaker of the Salineño Wildlife Preserve, which is located just feet from the Mexican border in deep ...
A vagrant Blackpoll Warbler is seen on Southeast Farallon Island in California. On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly ethereal bird ...
On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly ethereal bird song floating, flute-like, through the canyon. The hikers identified the singer ...
A rare moment of grace broke through the concrete bars of Louisiana State Penitentiary (also called “Angola”) this month, when guards and organizers hosted the facility’s first-ever “father-daughter ...
When a bird rarely seen on this continent showed up in Riverhead last month, the reaction was, as might be expected, a little cuckoo. Native to Eurasia, the bird is anything but common here: It ...
ALL RIGHT, CALLING ALL BIRD ENTHUSIASTS. AND BY THE WAY, I FOUND OUT THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, SO I THINK THEY’LL FIND THIS INTERESTING. A RARE BIRD WAS SEEN TODAY IN SOUTH ...
The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state Friday. The state’s Department of Health said in a release the resident of ...
A Washington state resident believed to be the first person to be infected with a rare strain of bird flu has died, state health officials announced. The person — an older adult with underlying health ...