By Mongabay.com The Philippine eagle is considered one of the world’s rarest birds of prey, with roughly 400 breeding pairs ...

One of the world's rarest birds may no longer be facing extinction, thanks to creative conservation efforts. One of the rarest birds in the world, the Wilkins' bunting, is a yellow finch endemic ...

The bird’s obscurity is due in large part ... Tashi is just one of countless amateur biologists around the world, but he possesses a rare combination of passion and talent.

The ’akikiki is one of the rarest birds in the world, with only a handful still living in the wild. “I assume they will all be gone by the end of this year,” says one biologist. An 'akikiki ...

The world is home to some incredibly rare and unique bird species. These rare birds are also critically endangered due to habitat loss and human activity. Galahs are members of the cockatoo family ...

These birds are “elusive and difficult to study ... to the revelation of a symbiotic relationship between the cahow and one of the world’s rarest lizards, the Bermuda skink.

Then she pulled out her yellow tape measure to discern the length of the bird’s wingspan. “We’re measuring him for a suit,” she joked. (The Galapagos penguin, one of the world's rarest ...

The plastic effects "nearly every organ system" of the birds, he said, especially the brain. Birds less than 6 months old exhibit signs of brain damage similar to those of dementia, he said. Even 1 or ...

decades-long effort to establish a population of one of the world’s rarest birds in the Sunshine State. “He’s a very handsome bird,” said Diane Gates, who traveled to see the crane after ...