The large bird of prey largely feeds on carrion and worms and cuts a distinctive silhouette with wing tips that look like ...

In The Place for History, a bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the ...

Researchers found a total of 18 of the striking black birds, and took what are thought to be the first-ever photos of them Scientists have managed to capture photos of a golden-crowned bird feared ...

A buzzard in Clehonger (Image: Tony Dell) The Wildlife Trust's view is echoed by the Hawk Conservancy Trust, which said they were lost from many parts of the UK due to ongoing persecution, a crash in ...

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 redshank is one of the wader birds the RSPB says is under threat in Northern Ireland A number of wader bird species could become extinct in Northern Ireland's countryside without "drastic ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.