Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around ... Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of Eastern and Central North America to learn about those birds ...

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 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 ...

California Condors are some of the largest birds in the world, and the largest in North America by wingspan ... and were at one point extinct in the wild. In 1965, their population had dwindled ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era.

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 ...