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 ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

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 ...

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

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