The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s, billions of these birds were flying over the forests of eastern North America ... Several decades earlier, the idea ...

Once abundant on Socorro Island, part of Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago, the Socorro dove was last seen in the wild over ...

After proving herself with ancient DNA work on other birds, Shapiro persuaded the museum to let her ... “Species that have been extinct for thousands of years, to think that you can re-create that ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Eagles have not thrived in Wales since the middle of the 19th Century but plans are now well advanced to re-introduce them ...

Work on the study of the natural world in the capital is carried out continuously, and information on rare species of animals ...

The redshank is one of the wader birds the RSPB says is under threat in Northern Ireland A number of wader bird species could become extinct in Northern Ireland's countryside without "drastic ...

A flock of endangered and vulnerable birds have ... visitors can see some of the world's rarest species of birds in the world and learn how together we can protect them. "We want to focus our ...

I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland ... your chances of seeing a paradise parrot would be effectively zero, as no live birds were spotted after that date, despite ...