"We just have to listen before the silence becomes permanent." Scientists issue warning as billions of bird vanish across ...

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Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline, ...

North America's bird populations are rapidly shrinking, and new research suggests the losses are accelerating in places once considered safe, The Guardian reported. The study, published in Science, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bird populations across North America are falling most quickly in areas where they ...

American white pelicans breed in Canada and migrate to the United States and Mexico during cold months. But studies using ...

The decisions combined the common redpoll and hairy redpoll, split up the barn owl into three species, and changed grammar. Defining a species is, like any other scientific endeavor, subject to ...

Sandhill cranes can be spotted in many states, but in the 1930s their populations had crashed to a few dozen breeding pairs in the eastern U.S. Rsocol/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY When I started ...

In Illumination’s animated movie “Migration,” which hits movies screens Friday, a mallard duck family flying from New England to Jamaica stops in New York. The freaked-out father of the ducks exclaims ...

To J. Drew Lanham, a conservation and cultural ornithologist at Clemson University and a lifelong birder, the little brown bird officially called Bachman’s Sparrow has long been the pinewoods sparrow.