The Maccoa ducklings hatched as part of a breeding program to save the species. The post Endangered African ducks hatch at ...

Wild populations of the rare Maccoa duck, an African wetland species, have been dwindling for decades. There numbers are ...

Four Maccoa ducklings, one of Africa's rarest duck species, have hatched at Chester Zoo for the very first time. The ...

So when a bird he brought back from a forest in southwest Gabon, Africa, turned out to be a new species, he made sure it was given a proper name: Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus, which is Greek for ...

A group of rare ducklings have hatched at Chester Zoo. The Maccoa duck is one of Africa's rarest and most endangered duck ...

South Africa’s beleaguered blue swallow has been reclassified from vulnerable to endangered in the latest global update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The intra-African migrant is a ...

The organisers of an initiative aimed at reversing a decline in numbers of house martins are asking members of the public to ...

There are 147 bird species categorised as threatened or near-threatened in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, according to the revised Red Data Book of Birds (RDB-online) launched by BirdLife ...

A baby red-crested turaco, with gray plumage, is the first chick born to the first African bird species to inhabit Osher Rainforest dome at the California Academy of Sciences. Dec. 9, 2024.