For the first time in more than a century, endangered California condors soared over the redwood forests along the state’s northern coast. The two birds, both males, were released from a pen in Redwood National Park on Tuesday morning, AP News reported. “That was just as exciting as I thought it was going to be,” […]
The UK’s loudest bird is making a vocal comeback. Bitterns are a type of marsh bird in the same family as herons and egrets, according to the Natural History Museum. They were driven to extinction in the UK in the 1870s when their habitat was drained for agriculture, according to BBC News. Hunting put additional […]
A bird flu outbreak is forcing farmers to put down millions of turkeys and chickens in eight states. The discovery of the disease in an egg-laying farm in Iowa Friday meant that 5.3 million chickens were scheduled for euthanization on that farm alone, AP News reported. This brings the total number of chickens or turkeys […]
A new study has found that the climate crisis is causing major disruptions to European birds, from shifting their nesting dates to decreasing their chick numbers to even changing their general body sizes. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that rising temperatures and non-temperature effects of climate change […]
The National Butterfly Center in Texas that stood up to former President Donald Trump’s border wall is now shuttering indefinitely because of harassment from right-wing conspiracy theorists. The 100-acre nature preserve in Mission, Texas has been in an ongoing legal battle with the former Trump administration and non-profit We Build a Wall in order to […]
Cigarette butts are the No. 1 form of plastic pollution, with around 4.5 trillion tossed cigarette butts in the world today. In Sweden, a company called Corvid Cleaning is using crows to pick up this discarded waste. For every butt deposited, the birds earn food. They collect the cigarettes, then drop them off in a […]
Conservation groups and scientists are calling on birdwatchers around the world to help them locate 10 species of bird that have been lost to science. The so-called Search for Lost Birds, which launched today, is a collaboration between Re:wild, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and BirdLife International to find 10 species that haven’t been seen in […]
In Australia, today’s top hits may surprise you. Just one week after its release, an album featuring 40 years’ worth of bird calls has taken the No. 5 spot on the music charts, beating out Abba, Mariah Carey, and Michael Bublé. Songs of Disappearance features calls from 53 threatened Australian bird species, which were recorded […]
As temperatures continue to rise, albatrosses are “divorcing” in higher rates. Albatrosses are large seabirds that notably pair up and tend to mate with one partner for life. Sometimes, they split, called a divorce, if they fail to reproduce. But new research shows that the warming environment is also causing more divorces between albatross couples. […]
Advertiser Disclosure
Our editorial team is committed to creating independent and objective content focused on helping our readers make informed decisions. To help support these efforts we receive compensation from companies that advertise with us.
The compensation we receive from these companies may impact how and where products appear on this site. This compensation does not influence the recommendations or advice our editorial team provides within our content. We do not include all companies, products or offers that may be available.
568k 
233k 
41k 
Subscribe 
