Hong Kong and Singapore, two Asian wildlife trade hubs, imported more than a million live wild birds, nearly two-thirds from Africa between 2006 and 2020, according to a new analysis of customs data.

Picasso the Senegalese parrot reveals the beauty, behavior, and challenges facing this colorful African bird.

West African songbirds are exported in large quantities for the global pet trade (seen in an export facility in Senegal). Courtesy World Parrot Trust Birds have, for centuries, been captured from the ...

Niger has released eight North African ostriches into the wild, bringing the species back to an area where it had disappeared decades ago. On 2 September 2026, 5 females and 3 males were released into ...

In parts of Africa, people communicate with a wild bird — the greater honeyguide — in order to locate bee colonies and harvest their stores of honey and beeswax. It’s a rare example of cooperation ...

The bird flies ahead, lands on a branch a little further away, and calls out. When a person approaches, it flies ahead again.

Researchers hope that the Rudd’s lark’s new isiZulu name — unonhlozi — could bolster conservation efforts to protect the small endangered lark (Heteromirafra ruddi). Unonhlozi means eyebrows, a nod to ...

The honeyguide bird loves beeswax, but needs help breaking open bees' nests to get it. So it shows a honey badger the way to the nest, who rips it open and together they share the rewards. Or so the ...

An outbreak of avian flu—a highly contagious viral infection that affects wild birds as well as poultry—has hit poultry farms in South Africa. Two different strains are causing outbreaks in the ...

Meet the Southern Ground Hornbill, an African bird who prefers walking to flying and eats snakes—even venomous ones. These birds stand about 3 feet tall, and many cultures consider them omens of death ...