Birds that call Arizona's desert ecosystem home — including the state's iconic cactus wren — are in serious decline, according to a sweeping new conservation report. Why it matters: Birds are ...

Did you know that Arizona is the hummingbird capital of the United States? With over a dozen species found in the state, including the Anna's hummingbird, the Costa's hummingbird and the broad-billed ...

On a cliff’s edge, overlooking the rippling waters of Lake Pleasant, biologists from the Arizona Game and Fish Department anchored ropes to nearby palo verde trees before carefully lowering themselves ...

MARBLE CANYON, Ariz. — Nestled among Arizona’s colossal Vermilion Cliffs, an inconspicuous building bustles with the sounds of flapping wings. Inside the remote building, no larger than a double wide ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird ...

Thousands of sandhill cranes are returning to the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area in Southeastern Arizona for their winter stay ...

The closest year-round populations of Mexican jays are in the Gila, where extreme drought and wildfires have decimated the ...

A global outbreak of avian flu is reaching Arizona, though officials believe the public health risk remains low. According to the Centers for Disease Control, H5 bird flu has spread in wild birds ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — Additional cases of bird flu have been confirmed in Arizona, this time in two geese at a park in Scottsdale. The Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory recently detected ...