Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the ...

As humans have transformed the natural environment, abundant birds have suffered the most—while some rare species have ...

Almost 3 billion birds have been lost in North America since 1970, according to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service news release. The ivory-billed woodpecker was never known as a common bird because it ...

The outlook was far bleaker than a U.S. government report just a few years ago on the fate of North America’s birds under climate change. That report, in 2010, projected ocean and Arctic birds ...

A group of bird watchers saw the black-and-white sea birds off New Zealand's North Island in January 2003. Also in 2003, the long-legged warbler — not seen by experts since 1894 — was found ...

The loss of billions of birds on North American soil has happened before. To our everlasting shame, in the late 1800s, passenger pigeons, sometimes gathering in flocks of two billion birds, were ...