The Endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is one of the rarest birds in Australia, with fewer than 20 known alive ...

"Like great crested grebes, they have an elaborate courtship display involving pairs meeting breast-to-breast and rising from the water, with lots of head shaking. As breeding red-necked grebes in the ...

"It's probably the second rarest bird to appear in 60 years at Tophilll Low after 2008's Amur falcon which, at the time, was ...

Birds are a wonderful part of the world around us, not only because of their impact on our own mental health and enjoyment but also because they contribute tirelessly to the ecosystems around them in ...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Whooping Cranes, one of the most threatened birds in the United States, have found a winter home in Alabama. The Whooping Crane reached near extinction in the 1940s, with only ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

A vagrant Blackpoll Warbler is seen on Southeast Farallon Island in California. On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly ethereal bird ...