When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

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 ...

Walter Lantz, the cartoonist, took some of his inspiration for Woody Woodpecker from our pileated woodpecker — a large ...

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

Chester Zoo cares for two breeding pairs and the chicks will bolster the insurance population of Socorro doves.

Eight Socorro dove chicks hatched at Chester Zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this year. These brown floofs represent a significant milestone for a species that is extinct in the wild. Socorro doves ...

Sandhill cranes were considered extinct in Ohio until returning to Wayne County in 1987. While their population is slowly ...

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Alexander Verry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Socorro doves are only cared for in conservation programs across Europe and North America after their numbers vanished in the ...