A team of environmental scientists at the University of Sydney, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of ...

As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

A state-run program pays farmers to help beleaguered Loggerhead Shrikes rebound by putting more shrubby habitat back on the ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

The exhibit — available for free viewing in the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library through March 28 — was designed to highlight bird species that have gone extinct or are critically endangered since the ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

“Not only did Wisconsin host the largest recorded nesting of passenger pigeons in 1871, but the Wisconsin Society of Ornithology also created a monument to the extinct bird at Wyalusing State Park.” ...

A RARELY-seen bird has been spotted at a Herefordshire gravel pit. The green-winged teal sighting was reported in February at ...