Five bird species that hadn't been seen, heard or genetically detected in over a decade were documented by researchers and birdwatchers in 2025-and the story behind how they were found is as ...

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more useful, ...

With the new changes, the overall number of “lost” birds, as defined in a 2022 study, dropped to 120 from the 163 listed when ...

A species that was previously considered lost, the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, was rediscovered in 2022. Doka Nason / American Bird Conservancy Nearly 12,000 species of birds exist in the wild, and ...

The first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been seen or heard in more than a decade, as reported by citizen scientists, has been released by scientists. The Louisiade pitta (Erythropitta meeki ...

The cadence of a songbird’s daily life, of its moment-to-moment motions, are generally faster than we can follow. The speed at which they hop from place to place, flap their wings, peck at bugs and ...

In 2025, birders and scientists found five “lost” bird species that had gone undocumented for a decade or more.

Every known animal has both a common name and a scientific name. While common names are used in everyday situations, ...

Lawmakers in Utah have said state wildlife officials will be barred from using new names for bird species if the American Ornithological Society moves forward with a plan to eliminate roughly 80 names ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. The study is published in the ...