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In Panama, major port construction begins at key mangrove site

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jan 2025

Birdwatchers rally behind endemic hummingbird, spurring conservation movement in Mexico

Tamara Blazquez Haik 23 Jan 2025
Data from transmitters helped the team identify corridors that are critical for the movements of the thick-billed parrots, which are endangered birds endemic to Mexico.

Satellite ‘backpacks’ help keep track of parrot migration in Mexico

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jan 2025

New study reveals why some birds are all about that bass

Bobby Bascomb 13 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025

Near-extinct Siberian crane is recovering thanks to habitat protection

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2025
An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Atlantic puffins are perilously attracted to artificial light

Spoorthy Raman 7 Jan 2025

U.S. reports first human death from H5N1 bird flu

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
Pioneer expedition: new findings reveal the state of the Amazonian Rivers

Pioneer expedition: new findings reveal the state of the Amazonian Rivers

Bruno Kelly, Julia Lima, Kevin Damasio, Rodrigo Séllos 26 Dec 2024

As polar ice caps melt, how are ‘Christmas animals’ faring?

Kristine Sabillo 24 Dec 2024

Five Hawaiian crows released into forest after decades of extinction in the wild

Shanna Hanbury 23 Dec 2024

Counting Crows (and more) for Audubon’s Christmas bird count

Bobby Bascomb 20 Dec 2024
A shipbreaking yard.

Shipbreaking pollutes Türkiye’s coast despite European cleanup efforts

Lyse Mauvais, Wouter Massink 17 Dec 2024

Scientists, Māori experts uncover new insights into rare spade-toothed whale

Keith Anthony Fabro 17 Dec 2024

Endangered seabirds return to Pacific island after century-long absence

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2024

Wisdom the 74-year-old albatross lays an egg with new mate

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Dec 2024

Elephant seal colonies in Argentina face long recovery after ‘catastrophic’ avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 22 Nov 2024
A bottlenose dolphin.

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

Sharon Guynup 21 Nov 2024
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Slender-billed curlew, a bird last photographed in 1995, is likely extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2024
A Dayak elder with a young member in Sungai Utik.

Borneo’s ‘omen birds’ find a staunch guardian in Indigenous Dayak Iban elders

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 15 Nov 2024
A bar-winged prinia (Prinia familiaris).

Thousands of birds seized in massive Indonesian bird-trafficking bust

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Nov 2024
A burrowing anemone in the seabed.

Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage

Mark Hillsdon 14 Nov 2024
Banner image of a curlew sandpiper, courtesy of Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok/BirdLife International.

Shorebird populations drop globally, some by a third: Report

Kristine Sabillo 11 Nov 2024

Droughts could change bird songs, creating new species, says study on Darwin’s finches

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2024
Two lesser noddies seen in Cox's Bazar.

Lesser noddy sighting stirs up birding community in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 5 Nov 2024
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

Population crash means African penguins are now critically endangered

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2024

China’s plans to trace wildlife trade risks inflaming trafficking, critics warn

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2024
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
Banner image of a drone. Image by Potushaft via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bird-watching with drones? Might want to watch your distance, study says

Kristine Sabillo 28 Oct 2024

What are the High Seas (and why should we care?)

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Oct 2024
A European blackbird.

New study upends common belief that birds escape winter to save energy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Oct 2024

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