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Seeing through the swarm: How hawks hunt bat prey

Liz Kimbrough 23 Aug 2022

An emerald-green hummingbird lost to science reemerges in Colombia

Liz Kimbrough 16 Aug 2022
An SOS Pantanal firefighter battles a blaze. Image by Gustavo Figueiroa/SOS Pantanal.

In Brazil’s Pantanal, early flames signal a ‘new normal’

Ana Ionova 15 Aug 2022

Bolivia’s former ‘death road’ is now a haven for wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 12 Aug 2022
The flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)

In a hotter, drier climate, how serious is fire risk to island seabirds?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Aug 2022
Nepal Beni jomsom road construction

No critical examination of flawed environmental assessments in Nepal, experts say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Aug 2022
Scarlet macaws in flight over the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

‘Birds are messengers’: Q&A with BirdLife’s Patricia Zurita

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2022
Scarlet tanager. Photo by Jen Goellnitz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Shade-grown coffee won’t support all birds, but adding a forest helps: Study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jul 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
A flycatcher is fed by a wildlife rehabber at Animals In Distress Association (AIDA) in Boise, Idaho. Image courtesy of AIDA.

Wildlife ‘rehabbers’ wage herculean fight for a noble cause

Grace Hansen 19 Jul 2022
An American black vulture in Nepal.

Sighting of an American black vulture in Nepal causes a flutter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Jul 2022
Hyacinth macaws in artificial nest

Habitat loss, climate change send hyacinth macaw reeling back into endangered status

Jenny Gonzales 4 Jul 2022

In Sri Lanka, a waterbird flips the parenting paradigm on its head

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Jul 2022

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

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jun 2022
A young birder from the United States, Heather Levy, scanning for imperial parrots at a viewpoint in Dominica’s Morne Diablotin National Park. Image by Peter Kleinhenz for Mongabay.

Parrots of the Caribbean: Birding tourism offers hope for threatened species

Peter Kleinhenz 29 Jun 2022
Lilian’s lovebirds perching on a branch.

Home away from home: Researchers trial artificial nests for Lilian’s lovebirds

Charles Mpaka 27 Jun 2022
The study found that 83 species of wild birds from West Africa were being traded online.

Study shines light, and raises alarm, over online trade of West African birds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jun 2022

Winter sanctuary in Nepal proves a killing field for yellow-breasted buntings

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Jun 2022

Draining tropical peatlands for oil palms isn’t just bad — it’s unnecessary, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2022
Maasai people in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.

World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns

Ryan Truscott 13 Jun 2022
Eliupendo Laltaika interviewing a member of the Sonjo community.

‘GPS’ bird points to the sweet spot: Q&A with honey hunter Eliupendo Laltaika

Ryan Truscott 13 Jun 2022
Chinese pond heron

Chinese pond heron spotted in Nepal for first time

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jun 2022

New study offers answers for why tropical birds are more colorful

Suzana Camargo 8 Jun 2022

End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022
The Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (Terenotriccus erythrurus) is a common species that forages on insects in the forest understory (an understory insectivore). Image courtesy of Dr. John Whitelaw.

Drastic declines in Neotropical birds in a protected Panamanian forest

Neha Jain 31 May 2022
A blue-grey tanager

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 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

‘Wildlife-friendly’ infrastructure rules in Nepal and India ignore the birds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 May 2022
A pink-headed fruit dove.

‘It’s just a bird’: Online platforms selling lesser-known Indonesian species

Sean Mowbray 17 May 2022
A hooded vulture

Scientists uncover widespread declines of raptors in Kenya

Caroline Chebet 17 May 2022
Headshot of an African grey parrot in profile. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Ugandan court hands Congolese parrot trafficker seven-year jail sentence

Benjamin Jumbe 13 May 2022
Elder Donny Abdullah in yellow hi-vis and ranger Kenny Spratt

‘Bring back burning culture’ to save seabirds: Q&A with Wudjari ranger Jennell Reynolds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 May 2022

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