In the U.S. 42 species of birds have low and steeply declining populations that put them on the brink of disaster, scientists ...

Scientists checked in on species all over the country for the latest State of the Birds report. Nearly everywhere they looked, birds were struggling—including some that have been resilient in ...

U.S. bird populations are experiencing alarming declines due to factors such as habitat loss and climate change, according to ...

The population of grassland birds in the U.S. has dropped by 43% since 1970, as row-crop production, drought and habitat loss take their toll, the report says. Aridland birds have declined 41% in ...

The Interior Department is suspending 20 Biden-era legal opinions, including one leading to fines against energy companies if ...

More than five years after a landmark study in the journal Science showed that North American bird populations declined by nearly 30% since 1970, a ...

Even fewer would have the patience to catch, weigh, measure, and identify hundreds of small birds and record their diets of seeds. But for the Grants, the rewards have been great: They have done ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) once lived from Virginia south to Florida and west to Texas, but the bird had almost disappeared by the 1970s during the loss of habitat from ...

This problem has contributed to a roughly 30% decline in birds since 1970 — or an estimated 3 billion fewer birds gracing the skies in North America. “The Fish and Wildlife Service can’t keep letting ...