SAN FRANCISCO — A disturbing avian mystery is unfolding in a Northern California town where residents have reported birds "exploding." Residents of a neighborhood in the Bay Area community of ...

Turns out that this brilliant red bird with jet-black wings is very fond of grape jelly as it continues to visit all day. The tanager is competing with five or six Baltimore orioles and a couple ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.

I’m thinking that most people have probably heard of a “gaggle” of geese or a “murder” of crows as a way to describe a flock of these particular birds. Warblers also have their ...

Operators of a B.C. ostrich farm where 400 birds have been ordered culled say dozens of supporters have converged on the scene, as the federal agency in charge of the operation confirmed it would ...

The U.S. government recently signalled it will be narrowing its interpretation of the U.S. law protecting migratory birds, and Canadian advocates are concerned the effects could be felt on both ...

Though the judge in the case said he sympathized with the farm for the economic and emotional toll the loss of its birds would have, he also wrote in his decision that must be balanced against the ...

Dr. Lily-Arison René de Roland is a conservationist who has spent 33 years saving endangered birds of prey in Madagascar. That includes a rare duck thought to be extinct since the 1990's. "After I saw ...

EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — The family operating the British Columbia ostrich farm where 400 birds have been ordered culled say about 40 supporters have arrived on scene in anticipation ...

Forest & Bird has criticised moves by the government to protect a herd of wapiti deer - or elk - in Fiordland National Park, accusing it of “changing the law to let a North American deer species ...

Quotable: “The agreement was reached through early-bird negotiations, as we still have one year remaining on the current agreement,” Gale said. “So, in essence this is something well in ...