Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old ...

A once-extinct bird is laying eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. Sihek, a now-endangered bird returned to the wild in 2024, has laid wild eggs in its new home in Hawaii, according ...

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 the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

Challenging a 50-year-old narrative about Hawaiʻi's native birds, a new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The IUCN Red List, which assesses the extinction risk of ...

More than 500 bird species face extinction within 100 years, warns new research Climate change and habitat loss could cause dozens of breeds to disappear forever within the next century, according to ...