With only about 130 left in captivity, siheks are extinct in the wild ... an orange handkerchief and a blue dress who an ...

The takahe, with its striking blue-green plumage and stout ... it represents an incredible recovery for a bird once presumed extinct. The takahe is currently listed as “Endangered” on the ...

An international effort to save the species from being lost forever has seen three of these extinct-in-the-wild birds move to ...

The sihek is native to Guam and had been extinct in the ... "Raising these birds from tiny helpless chicks to fully fledged adults, with their beautiful blue and orange plumage, is a long process ...

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.

People started trapping them, hoping to sell the live birds to the highest bidder. They went extinct anyway—which makes them an appropriately ironic subject for Laurel Roth Hope. Years ago Hope ...

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science fiction: reviving the dodo, a bird that’s been extinct for more than ...

In September 2021, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed a ruling that would declare the ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species, extinct. The decision would remove the bird ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ..

The blue-billed curassow is the world's most threatened species of cracid, a family of beautiful crested game birds found primarily in Latin America. This large, mainly black bird is the only curassow ...