Due to poor forest conservation on its native island of Cebu in the Philippines, this bird was thought to have gone extinct in the early 1900s. In 1992, researchers started an expedition and were ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, passenger pigeon, and others. Scientists worldwide are engaged in these ...

Despite being flightless, the ostriches of Africa have distant relations in Australia, New Zealand, and South America. All part of a group called the ratites, these birds share some common ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON (AFP): Five extinct species have been included on the ballot to find New Zealand's most popular feathered friend as competition organisers hope to draw attention to endangered birds.

Vulnerable coastal seabirds are thriving again after nearly becoming extinct in Massachusetts ... The local population of the birds has increased by 1.5% in the last year and 500% since the ...