To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite ...

Animal experts said the two cassowaries were a parent child pair, too, a father and son who had been “habituated” – that is ...

Scientists estimate that over 99% of all animal species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. While that is a daunting figure, extinction is a part of life. From natural selection to mass ...

For each of these 60 species, the next severe tropical cyclone may be their last. A better understanding of the distribution and status of these species is only the beginning.

Owen Deutsch’s and Michael Parr’s book “Birds of the Tropical Andes” is set to be released on July 8. This 264-page hardbound ...

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline ...

Tropical birds get their bright colors from a mix of brilliant pigments and structural color like ... the team built a database of 9,409 species of birds to look at how color spread around the ...

Thailand’s diverse habitats are home to rare birds found nowhere else on Earth. Here are 10 unique species and subspecies found only in the country.

Conservationists say there is new hope for one of the world's rarest bird species, the blue-eyed ground dove, after three ...

Birds have evolved a unique tolerance for sour foods by rewiring a key taste receptor, reshaping their diets and ecosystems.

Tropical single-island endemic bird populations are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The authors investigate genetic evidence of how such species dealt with climate changes in the past as a ...