From the flightless dodo in Mauritius to the passenger pigeon in North America, 279 bird species and subspecies have vanished in the last 500 years, researchers estimate. The rate of extinctions ...

The United States and Canada have lost almost a third of their bird population since 1970, an alarming study recently found. Habitat loss, collisions with glass, hunting by domestic cats, and ...

Bald eagle nest failures and deaths are piling up at an “alarming rate” as a result of the highly infectious avian influenza, University of Georgia researchers announced this week. The avian influenza ...

New study from the University of Sheffield, IoZ, and UCL found more than one in six bird eggs fail to hatch Hatching failure increases as species decline, so the new research could be used to predict ...

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