I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of ...

Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the nineteenth century ... This is in stark contrast ...

the bird’s numbers dwindled with the North Island takahe disappearing entirely centuries ago. The South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), declared extinct by ornithologists in 1898 ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

First listed as an endangered species in 1982, they have been extinct in the wild since 1988 due to an invasive predator, the brown tree snake. The birds’ successful release is the result of ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been discovered. The early relatives of ducks ...

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably and problematically the most successful bird on the ... with largest concentrations around cities ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the state is the first to describe it. The now-extinct bird is the Bachman’s ...