Amnesty for unwanted guns A firearm surrender programme run by all the UK’s police forces is under way. The scheme, which ...

You may wonder if there's any other new and terrifying diseases on the rampage that you should know about. The answer: ...

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Great Backyard Bird Count” asks people to track the birds they see and hear over a few days. The information can help ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is one of several annual counts that help researchers to better understand bird species.

Northland's largest wetland has suffered significant damage to an area the size of 54 rugby fields after a landowner allowed ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Watch your backyard come to life as amazing owl species swoop through the night skies. Get to know the types of owls you ...

Once abundant on Socorro Island, part of Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago, the Socorro dove was last seen in the wild over ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...