Shoebill birds can reach a height of five feet, but the prehistoric-looking creatures generally aren't taller than people.

A once-extinct bird is laying eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. Sihek, a now-endangered bird returned to the wild in 2024, has laid wild eggs in its new home in Hawaii, according ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, ...

More than 500 bird species face extinction within 100 years, warns new research Climate change and habitat loss could cause dozens of breeds to disappear forever within the next century, according to ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found. Their study, published today (Tuesday ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause dozens of breeds to disappear forever within the next century, according to the University of Reading study. The findings, published in the journal Nature ...