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 Birds of ...

New research found that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction.

Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the nineteenth century would have been familiar with ...

These beautiful birds are North America's most common hawks. They are found all over the continent, in Central America, and in the West Indies. The first of these hawks to be scientifically ...

A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ecosystems of volcanic islands.

This is the common and familiar “sea­gull” across much of North America—from coastal beaches ... often dark wash basally (most heavily marked birds look dark-tailed); tail band sometimes ...