We take a look at the birds of prey with the largest numbers in the world and the reasons behind their healthy population ...

ROTUND, ground-dwelling and disastrously trusting of humans, the dodo became the world's poster species for extinction after ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep—and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and ...

After starting the year with its first known bird flu death, the US expanded its efforts to contain the virus, which enabled ...

In early December, residents living on Big Diamond Pond in New Hampshire noticed a tiny, black speck floating in a small ...

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the ...

Centuries ago, Mauritius held a world unlike anything sailors expected to find. The island sat far from major travel routes, ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

The researchers have commented on how the behaviour of the new species has a striking resemblance to the dodo. The slaty-masked tinamou is ground-dwelling, naive to humans, and lacks natural fear of ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical birds. “It has a voice like no other..." ...

It’s just an “ordinary bird,” yet it can carry itself across a continent with little more than the gentlest of scents. Tiny dark-eyed juncos are common winter visitors around backyard birdfeeders. You ...