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An Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea)

Invading the globe: Bird flu now threatens Australia and Oceania

Christine Heinrichs 7 Oct 2026
A pair of cockatoos is spotted perching on a nest box at St. Louis School in Hong Kong on May 9, 2026. Image courtesy of Winster Wong/St. Louis School.

Artificial nests give Hong Kong’s cockatoos a home – and a chance to study their behavior

Yenni Kwok 6 Oct 2026
A European roller was killed by hunters after a mid-September storm. Image courtesy of BirdLife Malta.

Hunters reportedly kill hundreds of migratory birds stranded by thunderstorm in Malta

Spoorthy Raman 5 Oct 2026
A maleo

Wildlife traffickers are now targeting Indonesia’s critically endangered maleo birds

Spoorthy Raman 2 Oct 2026
Two Spix’s macaws

Vantara in talks with Brazil on ‘strategic cooperation’ on threatened species, FOIA documents reveal

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 1 Oct 2026
A mother Philippine eagle, Aya, and her young, Cabuaya, at Mount Hamiguitan in their nest in 2005.

Philippine eagle habitat study maps mining risks and conservation priorities

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Sep 2026

Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Sep 2026
A humpback whale back surrounded by murres and other seabirds off the coast of Alaska, with a fishing vessel in background. As warm waters reduced offshore krill, whales moved closer to the coast, where crab fishers set their traps and cast their nets, leading to a spike in whale entanglements.

New global maps chart 40 years of ocean heat and acidification extremes

María Paula Rubiano A. 29 Sep 2026
A yellow-eyed penguin.

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets

Edward Carver 28 Sep 2026
A Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d’Ivoire.

‘Lost’ bird reappears in West Africa’s forests after more than a decade

John Cannon 24 Sep 2026

New study reveals the genetic history – and possible future – of four Asian hornbills

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2026

H5N1 bird flu jumps to marine mammals and wildlife in Australia

Naina Rao 21 Sep 2026
Image: Elephant puppet created by Greg Corbino created for Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals by Stephanie Ann Boyd. Photo courtesy of Ocean Music Action.

‘Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals’ celebrates species with song

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2026
Bar-headed geese (Anser indicus).

Decline of migratory birds spurs calls for coordinated conservation

Wilson Odhiambo 14 Sep 2026
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

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