Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off fire ants.

A trio of some of the most endangered birds in the world were relocated from their home in the Vermillion Cliffs of Arizona ...

The 2016 State of North America’s Birds report — compiled by scientists, ... The critically endangered California Condor received a “concern score” of 20 in the report’s Watch List.

A billion birds have disappeared from North America since 1970, and a third of bird species across the continent are threatened with extinction, a new report says.

One of North America's most endangered birds reaches dramatic milestone. The grasshopper sparrow faced a real possibility of extinction in 2019. Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

A male bobolink stands on top of a shrub near its nest, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in Denton, Neb. North America's grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after adoption of the Endangered ...

A 2019 study published in Science revealed that the country has lost nearly three billion birds since 1970. Yet the wood duck's remarkable recovery offers hope.

She now is the lead technician caring for North America’s most endangered bird. She’s named all of her hand-reared sparrows. Now that wildlife managers are ready to release the birds she’s ...

North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970, a study says. ... likely because of focused conservation efforts and Endangered Species legislation, the study found.

The last major outbreak—caused by a related strain, H5N8—reached North America in 2014, causing approximately $3 billion in losses to U.S. farmers, who had to cull 50 million chickens and turkeys.

Throughout North America, those of us engaged in avian conservation were shocked by the numbers and their implications. These were not just populations of rare and endangered birds being studied.

With a quarter of U.S. bird populations lost since 1970, experts see the remarkable recovery of wood ducks as a blueprint for future conservation efforts.