Invasive species cost the North American economy $26 billion a year. By outcompeting local plants or animals, invaders reduce ...

Over 500 bird species could vanish in 100 years. Protecting habitats isn't enough. Targeted recovery efforts are crucial.

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...

A Haast’s eagle attacks a moa pair. John Megahan, PLOS Biology, 3(1): e20 via Wikipedia under CC By 2.5 Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on ...

Watch signs of spring take flight as wildlife biologists guide you to Michigan’s premier bird watching locations ... observe a variety of species, including diving and dabbling ducks in full breeding ...

Some species that breed over large geographic areas can still be adapted to a fairly narrow range of climates, making them more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. Also, species ...

A study published in Science reveals that North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving. Researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

Large Arctic mammals, such as ... lemmings, Arctic hares, wolverines, caribou, migrating birds, mosquitoes, and black flies. Animals of the alpine tundra biome migrate to lower elevations in ...

The large flightless elephant birds endemic to Madagascar vanished after people arrived, including Aepyornis maximus, possibly the largest bird that ever existed, about 10 feet (3 meters) tall.

“They are the only group of birds that achieved the role of terrestrial apex predators, evolving species that basically conquered South America during the Miocene (about 23.03 million to 5.33 ...

Studying big birds might shed light on dinosaur behavior. ... the rotary task must be used on other bird species to assess both how they respond to the same problems and how they try to solve them.