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Lesser and greater flamingos amass at Lake Natron

Migratory bird species increasingly at risk, report finds, but there is still hope

Sean Mowbray 11 Sep 2026
A turbine being installed at Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the U.K.

Offshore wind may be good for the climate but can it be good for the ocean, too?

Sean Mowbray 10 Sep 2026
A western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

To save Europe’s raptors, conservationists say, look to West Africa

Sean Mowbray 9 Sep 2026
The western tragopan depends on undisturbed mountain forests for survival. Image courtesy of Jainy Maria.

Colorful Himalayan pheasants face a less rosy future under human pressure

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2026
Pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) at Omsk, Russia in 2026. Image by Yaroslav Burmatov via INaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

‘Birds know no borders’: Interview with BirdLife Africa’s Alex Ngari

Wilson Odhiambo 8 Sep 2026
DO NOT REUSE A Rüppell's vulture, in Boma National Park, South Sudan. Image © Marcus Westberg.

World Heritage status for South Sudan parks will be a boon for the birds

Ryan Truscott 7 Sep 2026
Mindoro Bleeding-heart captured via camera trap.

A ‘lost’ Philippine pigeon reappears after 20 years — but its forest is disappearing

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Sep 2026
Andean Condor

Andean condors: From fear to coexistence

Julia Lima 3 Sep 2026
Hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus). Image by Josh van der Meulen via INaturalist (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

West Africa’s plan to save its vultures struggles to take flight

Sean Mowbray 3 Sep 2026
For the Iraya, the forest is a largely unwritten living archive.

The race to document Indigenous knowledge to protect Philippines’ birds

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026
The superb fairywren is one of 30 endemic Australasian wrens.

Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them

Cooper Williams 31 Aug 2026
A view of the presidential palace in Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara. Image courtesy of Leah Varjacques.

Recording a rainforest before Indonesia’s new capital changes it

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2026

Singapore made a crow-friendly city. Now it wants to shoot them

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2026
The colorful Javan blue flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas)

In Java’s hills, former bird hunters are rebuilding a songbird haven

Triyo Handoko 27 Aug 2026
A red siskin (Spinus cucullatus)

How a rare bird sparked a wildlife movement across 16 villages in Guyana

Gentry Hale 24 Aug 2026
A gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) and chick. Penguins in Antarctica face converging threats from krill fishing and climate change. Image courtesy of Shawn Heinrichs.

Antarctic krill fishery closes months early amid increasing fishing pressure

Francesco De Augustinis 24 Aug 2026
Many think of wildlife corridors as connected landscapes, but across the globe, animals on land, in freshwater, in the sea and in the skies need to be able to safely move to find food, water, to find a mate and reproduce. Flyways are aerial avian corridors. Image by AP Photos/Jae C. Hong.

Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Aug 2026

Tapirs, bats and nests: How plastic infiltrates Amazonian wildlife

Tiago da Mota e Silva 18 Aug 2026
The siruk, or Mindoro boobook (Ninox mindorensis), in Puerto Galera.

Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Aug 2026

On an Indonesian island, an ancient ritual evolves to protect an endangered cockatoo

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2026
A Timor green pigeon (Treron psittaceus).

Only a few hundred Timor green pigeons may remain. There is still time to save them

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2026
Anden Condor

The king of the Andes: How a village learned to coexist with condors

Christina Noriega, Monica Wise Robles, Julia Lima 15 Aug 2026
Jackie and Shadow caring for their egg in their nest in the Big Bear Valley in 2019

Big Bear Valley’s beloved bald eagle Jackie is dead

Spoorthy Raman 13 Aug 2026
A Timor green pigeon (Treron psittaceus).

Timor green pigeon nears extinction after decades of inaction, study warns

Timothy Mihocik 13 Aug 2026
A zookeeper feeds a Sarus Crane bird at the Central Zoo in Lalitpur, Nepal

Delays, biosecurity failures worsened flu outbreak at Nepal zoo, probe finds

Deepak Adhikari 12 Aug 2026
Crows, in particular, have found themselves in the crosshairs of late.

As Singapore culls ‘nuisance’ birds, rapid urbanization continues to fuel an avian boom

Robin Hicks 11 Aug 2026

Uzbekistan’s houbara releases serve hunting, not conservation, expert says

Naina Rao 11 Aug 2026

Tree cover is not the same as ecological recovery

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2026
A flock of snow geese.

From radar blobs to bird species, AI helps transform migration tracking

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Aug 2026
A Himalayan griffon, Central Zoo, Kathmandu.

Nepal zoo bird flu outbreak raises alarm for national parks

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Mukesh Pokhrel 6 Aug 2026

‘My Wild City’ reminds us why cities need nature

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Aug 2026

Mining threat persists in Raja Ampat, Indonesia’s ‘Amazon of the Seas’

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Aug 2026

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