California condors – known scientifically as Gymnogyps californianus – are imposing vultures. They’re the largest bird ...

On a recent morning, 10 Florida grasshopper sparrows, tiny brown-speckled birds that are the most ... sparrow that are found throughout North America, Central America and the West Indies.

In North America, six native species from Hawaii made the list ... Since then, researchers have located around 50 of the critically endangered birds. Also in 2022, the auwo, also known as the ...

In a decline not seen since the DDT era, the spectacular raptors have noticeably decreased in numbers over the past two years ...

California condor researchers track every rare survivor in the nearly-extinct species, and mourn the loss of a Colorado ...

In 2018 we’ll explore the wonder of birds, and why we can’t live ... PHOTOGRAPHED AT PHEASANT HEAVEN, CLINTON, NORTH CAROLINA Like its North American cousin, the vermilion cardinal (Cardinalis ...

POPULATION TREND: A quarter- to a half-million birds inhabited the North American continent at the time of European arrival. Reduced to a mere 416 pairs in the lower 48 states by 1963, the species was ...

North America is the third largest continent ... ground squirrels, rabbits, and birds. They became endangered due to oil ...

The humble turkey vulture plays a vital role in keeping the land clean and diseases at bay. It also acts like an avian ...

RIP honeycreeper birds, Mariana fruit bat of Guam, Bachman’s warbler and the rest of the 21 species lost to extinction in the ...

"It's birds throughout the ... Also in the exhibit is the highly endangered Malagasy sacred ibis. In November 2023, the zoo successfully hatched the first in North America.

The Florida grasshopper sparrow was near extinction only a few years ago. The recent release of the 1,000th captive-raised ...