Whooping cranes faced extinction, with only twenty-one birds remaining in 1941. Intensive conservation efforts have increased ...

Big bones from the extinct "thunder bird" or dromornithid, excavated in the northern reaches of the Flinders Ranges and near Alice Springs, have yielded new insights into their slow breeding patterns.

Most migratory birds spend their winters in one habitat and then fly to a new area in the springtime to breed. They’ll raise one or more broods of young there. Then, come fall, they begin the trip ...

Spring is in full swing. Trees are leafing out, flowers are blooming, bees are buzzing, and birds are singing. But a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found ...

A study recently completed in Europe and North America indicates that the composition of wintering and breeding bird communities changes in line with global warming. However, wintering bird ...

The dotterel could become the first bird to become extinct in Britain because of climate change, the RSPB has warned.

Now that spring is in the air, the UK is starting to see its summer visitors arriving. Ospreys are already back in their nests, chiffchaffs are singing their song to re-establish their territories, ...

For the second year in a row, researchers have spotted purple-crowned fairywrens – small birds that dwell near creeks and rivers in northern Australia – reproducing outside their usual breeding season ...

Arriving early in the breeding area is crucial for successful reproduction also in non-migratory birds. In birds, timing of arrival in a breeding area influences who ends up breeding and who does not.