No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in ... in lots of different birds across the bird tree ...

The great Florida swamp is a terrible place to raise a family. Wading birds with nests in the Everglades worry constantly. Bandits are everywhere. They steal babies and eat them, sometimes in ...

If that sounds like a perilous choice, consider this: Egrets, heron and other long-legged wading birds of the Florida swamps have more reasons to fear raccoons and possums, who invade nests and ...

But these relationships often appear to be a one-way street. It turns out that many species of long-legged wading birds in the Everglades have a similar relationship with American alligators.

Coastal wading birds shape their lives around the tides, and new research in The Auk: Ornithological Advances shows that different species respond differently to shifting patterns of high and low ...