The Louisiade pitta is one of the "lost" species found in 2022 and 2023 on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea. There had been no definite record of this bird since 1898. A group of scientists has ...

Happy New Year everybody! As is customary at this time of year, I am going to pause to take a look back at the events of the ...

Birders visiting Sanibel and Captiva have a new resource when scanning the brush and beaches with binoculars for fine-feathered flocks. The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation compiled a ...

Thomas Jefferson, who penned the essence of democracy in the phrase “… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…” in our nation’s Declaration of Independence, was also an avid bird-watcher. He ...

Not all birds can fly. Some birds have lost the ability to take to the skies. These are called flightless birds. They belong to different parts of the world and have unique features. Flightless birds ...

BirdLife South Africa, a bird conservation organisation, is working on compiling a list of bird names in isiZulu. They are also working towards having more lists in other official South African ...

A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade, with the help of Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Their ...