Kākāpō ( Strigops habroptilus) are large, flightless, nocturnal parrots with mottled green and yellow plumage that only breed every two to four years. Their breeding seasons are triggered by the mass ...

Conservationists in the U.K. are celebrating after a pair of rare birds successfully bred, marking the first time in years the species has hatched chicks in the country. As the Halstead Gazette ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found. Some, like the passenger pigeon, ...

It's always fun to watch birds perched on your backyard trees or feeding stations. And if they happen to be a rare sight in your area? You could easily spend a few hours looking up their ID, logging ...

New Zealand plans to eradicate millions of invasive animals that threaten its rare birds. The goal may be out of reach unless new technology makes... To save its unique and rare birds, New Zealand is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tom Langen, Clarkson University (THE CONVERSATION) When I started bird-watching as a ...