A peculiar fossil has helped scientists discover an unusual bird that lived among the dinosaurs 120 million years ago, and the find is changing the way researchers think about avian evolution. The ...

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.

Birds are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures — but a few of our feathered friends are truly bizarre — like these 25 ...

The loss of these birds will lead to the unraveling or to the complete collapse of entire ecosystems. An adult male yellow-bellied sunbird-asity (Neodrepanis hypoxantha) in Ranomafana National Park, ...

When we think of bird nests, most of us imagine a simple bundle of twigs tucked in a tree branch. But that common image is just one part of a much bigger story. Around the world, birds have found many ...

NPR To save its unique and rare birds, New Zealand is turning to AI and genetic research New Zealand plans to eradicate millions of invasive animals that threaten its rare birds. The goal may be out ...