I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of ...

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

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 would have been familiar with ...

Scientists cannot even say why the Carolina parakeet went extinct ... birds. Editor's Note: In “The Lost Parrot,” we mistakenly characterized the Carolina parakeet as “North America ...

There are over 200 species of shorebirds in the world. The largest of all shorebirds are curlews of which there are nine ...

A study published in Science reveals that North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving. Researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology analyzed ...

The orbital ring is a dull yellow. Presently considered monotypic; however, there have been two subspecies described: americanus in eastern North America and occidentalis in the Southwest.