Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

The release of the 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report was announced today at the 90th annual North American ... declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats ...

North American bird populations are shrinking most rapidly in the very areas where they are still most abundant, according to a new study leveraging citizen science data for nearly 500 bird species.

A team of researchers led by iDiv, Leipzig University and MLU used the best available evidence on bird population changes through time from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS ...

In 2020, the American Ornithological Society dubbed this bird, formerly named for a Confederate general, the “thick-billed longspur." Skip Russell via Flickr> under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Starting ...

As the climate crisis worsens, so does pressure on wildlife. The number of birds in North America has declined by 3 billion in the last 50 years. Brooke Bateman, director of climate science at the ...

A study published in Science reveals that North American bird populations are declining most severely in areas where they should be thriving. Researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...

Now, those voices are going silent. A new study published last week in Science brought stunning news: Three out of every four of the 500 North American bird species are in decline, or 75%.

Nothing’s better, he says, than getting up at sunrise as the birds light up the area with ... (760,000 square kilometers) — of historic North American grasslands that remain are threatened ...

The process of choosing new names will begin next year. This change, which will affect some 150 North American birds, has been a long time coming. Ornithologists and amateur birders alike have ...

North America's grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after adoption of the Endangered Species Act, with numbers plunging as habitat loss, land degradation and climate change threaten ...

Nothing's better, he says, than getting up at sunrise as the birds light up the area with ... (293,000 square miles) — of historic North American grasslands that remain are threatened by ...