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Camera traps in trees reveal a richness of species in Rwandan park

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2020
Hooded vultures eating a dog carcass in the Gambia. Image by Paul Walter via Wikicommons (CC BY-2.0)

As Guinea-Bissau records mass vulture deaths, poisoning is main suspect

Ed Holt 9 Mar 2020
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019
Hooded vulture. Image courtesy John Davies/EWT

Lift-off for first African vulture safe zones

Fred Kockott, Tony Carnie 28 Nov 2019

Snowy owl summer: Raptor rehabilitation center releases Arctic visitor

Erik Hoffner 10 Jul 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019
Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus). Photo courtesy Anton Khalilieh.

Bird watchers of the West Bank navigate a fraught political climate

Miriam Berger 29 Aug 2018

‘Urban Raptors’: Q&A with authors of book on ecology and conservation of city-dwelling birds of prey

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jun 2018

For Australia’s fire-starting falcons, pyromania serves up the prey

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2018

Photos: night owls

David Oehler, Julie Larsen Maher 13 Oct 2017

Photos: Bald eagle bird bath

Julie Larsen Maher, Megan Maher 28 Jul 2017

Harry Potter may have sparked illegal owl trade in Indonesia

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2017

A Whitley Award winner’s 20-year battle to save the world’s largest eagle in Venezuela

Bruno Moraes 18 May 2017
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Goddesses of the wind: How researchers saved Venezuela’s harpy eagles

Bruno Moraes 17 May 2017

The biologist terrifying the US Forest Service and the timber and forest fire-fighting industries

Derek E. Lee 29 Aug 2016

Big city living doesn’t stop peregrine falcons from mating for life

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jul 2016

Scientists see like predators to prove camouflage works

Karen Johnston 15 Feb 2016

Court cancels 30-year federal permits letting wind companies kill eagles

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Dec 2015

Commercial bushmeat hunters put previously undetected pressure on Central Africa’s large birds

William Freedberg 20 Apr 2015

New survey finds surprisingly large population of endangered owl

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2014

Perched on the precipice: India’s vultures threatened by E.U. sale of killer drug

Esther Wullschleger Schättin 5 Nov 2014

Shot Egyptian vulture leads conservationists to bizarre black-market for bird parts

Tanya Dimitrova 24 Jun 2014

Chile turns to owls to combat fatal disease

Franziska Green 1 Apr 2014

Europe approves vet drug that killed off almost all of Asia’s vultures

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 25 Mar 2014

World’s biggest owl depends on large old trees

Natalie Millar 3 Sep 2013

The Egyptian Vulture on the Balkans – a hopeful but perilous conservation story

Tanya Dimitrova 2 Jul 2013

Snowy tigers and giant owls: conservation against the odds in Russia’s Far East

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2013

Rare birds abound in Brazil’s Acre state

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

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