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

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, ...

Perched atop a transmission tower in a newly restored wetland, two endangered Oriental storks are expanding the area their species calls home. According to a China Daily report, a pair of endangered ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird song floating, flute-like, through the canyon. The hikers identified the ...

Texas birders have been treated to an unusual streak of sightings this year, including species that rarely, if ever, make an appearance in the state. In September, a double-striped thick-knee was ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

The pigeon family includes over 300 species worldwide, ranging from familiar city dwellers to rare tropical birds. Notable members include: Pigeons have compact bodies, short legs, and small heads ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandhill cranes can be spotted in many states, but in the 1930s their populations had crashed to a few dozen breeding pairs in the ...