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Without vultures, carcasses are slow to rot and disease-carrying flies abound

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2025

Cape vulture conservation offers hope, but challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 14 May 2025
Hooded vulture, Gambia 2017. Image by Pete Richman via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In West Africa, hooded vultures vanish as abattoirs modernize

Ryan Truscott 24 Apr 2025
A common kestrel, one of the raptors frequently hunted down by poachers in Lebanon.

‘Trophies’ shared on social media reveal scale of mass bird slaughter in Lebanon

Spoorthy Raman 17 Apr 2025
Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt's birds

Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt’s birds

Mahmoud Elsobky, Wael El-Sayegh 2 Apr 2025
Banner image: Tourists interact with birds at the Bouddhanath shrine in Kathmandu. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi

As Kathmandu’s birds get used to humans, biodiversity suffers, studies show

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Oct 2024
A Philippine eagle.

The tribal leader dedicating his life to protect Philippine’s critically-endangered national bird

Bong S. Sarmiento 15 Oct 2024
Two hooded vultures in the Gambia. Image by Roger Sanderson via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Hooded vultures in Ghana and South Africa on the brink, study says

Sean Mowbray 16 Sep 2024
A white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) flying over a city.

Time to highlight South Asia’s less-studied vultures: Interview with Krishna Bhusal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2024

Shooting of Philippine eagle renews calls to boost enforcement, wildlife protection

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Jul 2024
Sonam Tashi Lama from Red Panda Network receives the Whitley Award from Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature in London. Image courtesy WFN.

Owl conservationist Raju Acharya wins Whitley Award in hat trick for Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 May 2024
Hoatzin in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

A new and improved bird family tree shows rapid post-dinosaur evolution

Liz Kimbrough 11 Apr 2024

Mexico’s first black-and-white hawk-eagle nest is a treasure trove for researchers

Astrid Arellano 24 Jan 2024
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Nepal’s birds pay cost for country’s infrastructure development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2023

Iconic Indonesian raptor still threatened by habitat degradation, isolation

Basten Gokkon 12 Dec 2023
Pigeon flock in Nepal

Super flock of pigeons leaves Nepali researchers asking what happened

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Sep 2023
Raju Acharya in the remote field in Accham district, western Nepal.

‘Owls are valuable only when alive’: Q&A with conservationist Raju Acharya

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Aug 2023
Vulture Nepal

Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2023

Nepal’s hydropower boom is killing birds via power lines

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 May 2023
vulture Nepal

Nepal’s vultures, recovering from a poisoning crisis, fly into another

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Mar 2023
A Philippine eagle with its solar powered GPS tracker harnessed on its back.

New map boosts Philippine eagle population estimate, but highlights threats

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Mar 2023
Pokhara Airport in Nepal with the Himalayan range in the background

Bird strike warnings resurface amid probe into deadly Nepal plane crash

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023

Harpy eagles: The challenge of protecting the Amazon’s largest bird of prey

Sibélia Zanon 12 Jan 2023
A Javan hawk-eagle on a branch

Indonesia foresters hope Garuda poachers turn gamekeepers

L. Darmawan 11 Oct 2022

In Kathmandu, when the falcon’s away, pigeons come out to play. And poop

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2022
critically endangered white-rumped vulture

No time to keep vultures out of danger as new Nepal airport set to open

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Aug 2022
White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) adult landing composite, Etosha National Park, Namibia. Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp

Cheetah reintroduction in Malawi brings vultures back to the skies

Ryan Truscott 25 Jul 2022

Andean eagles have managed to adapt to fragmenting habitats — for now

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jun 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
A hooded vulture

Scientists uncover widespread declines of raptors in Kenya

Caroline Chebet 17 May 2022
Pokhara Airport in Nepal with the Himalayan range in the background

‘Sharing the air’ proves a challenge for new Nepal airport in bird paradise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Apr 2022

Stronghold for Africa’s rarest falcon discovered in reserve threatened by Mozambique insurgency

Ryan Truscott 24 Mar 2022

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