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 ...

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 ...

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 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 new study reveals North American bird populations are declining, especially in their traditional habitats, due to rapid environmental changes like climate change. Researchers analyzed vast eBird ...

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 ...

A 2019 study sounded the alarm on declining North American bird numbers, finding the region lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970. “This new analysis helps us turn that alarm into action by ...

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 ...

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%.

The provisional nature of taxonomy is surely evident in birds. The American Ornithological Society (AOS) has a committee, the North American Checklist Committee (NACC), that maintains the official ...