An ancient forest is the last stand for a tiny hummingbird facing extinction - On the slopes of the Pichincha volcano, 45 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Andean condors are the biggest raptors in the world — and are vital to their ecosystem ...

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 ...

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, ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The IUCN Red List, which assesses the extinction risk of ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials ...

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 ...