By Nika Paposhvili The wide-ranging sea duck known as the velvet scoter can be found in the skies and waters of nearly a dozen European and Asian countries, but it has almost disappeared from some of them. Just a few years ago, it was thought that the geographically isolated breeding population of these birds in […]
After being threatened with extinction, the American bald eagle population has quadrupled since 2009 — a swift recovery that Martha Williams, deputy director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, calls “one of the most remarkable conservation success stories of all time,” AP News reported. A report released Wednesday by The U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
Can animals, like humans, lose their culture when separated from others like themselves? A new study provides rare evidence that they can. The study began when a research team searching for a critically endangered Australian bird noticed something unusual: The birds they encountered weren’t singing the songs the researchers expected to hear. “They didn’t sound […]
By Claire Wordley The rancher peers at an enormous bird high in the treetops. Reining in his horse, he squints upward. It’s not moving; maybe it will still be there when he gets back. An hour later, he returns with a gun. The huge animal is still there, motionless. Taking aim, he fires, and the […]
On the morning of October 2, Stephen Maciejewski, an Audubon Pennsylvania volunteer, expected to tally a few dead birds in Philadelphia during their peak migration season. But instead, he found hundreds of dead birds, CNN reported. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” Maciejewski told CNN in October. “There were birds everywhere, and they were all […]
Jamie Hill has been a birdwatcher for more than 48 years. After retiring from his career as an ornithologist, he spent most of his time scouting rare birds in the Pennsylvania area. On February 20, he was given the chance of a lifetime to photograph a “once-in-a-lifetime,” half-male, half-female Northern Cardinal. One of Hill’s birding […]
On Monday the Biden administration restored protections for migratory birds from accidental, industry-caused deaths. In 2017 the Trump administration altered the interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) arguing that it only prohibited the direct hunting or killing of birds, not unintended deaths from wind turbines or oil spills, for example, EcoWatch reported at […]
Wisdom the mōlī, or Laysan albatross, is the oldest wild bird known to science at the age of at least 70. She is also, as of February 1, a new mother. Wisdom hatched her latest chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial, home to the world’s largest albatross colony […]
By John R. Platt The straw-headed bulbul doesn’t look like much. It’s less than a foot in length, with subdued brown-and-gold plumage, a black beak and beady red eyes. If you saw one sitting on a branch in front of you, you might not give it a second glance. But this Southeast Asian native stands […]
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