State of the Birds Report highlights the urgent need for conservation as North American bird populations continue to fall.

The whistling ducks, with their distinctive call and pink beaks, are often found along the Gulf Coast, including in Houston.

Glacier-carved fields and ephemeral wetlands provide a crucial stopover for long-distance migrants and prolific breeding ...

Among all waterfowl, numbers are down 20% since 2014 ... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and citizen projects such as Cornell's eBird. There are some 2,000 bird species in North America. A third of the ...

If I had the opportunity to create a bird species, I’m not sure how I would proceed. Would it be a giant like an ostrich, a ...

Apart from natural boom-and-bust cycles, science makes it clear: long-term declines in waterfowl are driven by habitat loss, ...

The American tree sparrow and some really cool ducks will be leaving soon.

Spring draws hundreds of millions of birds north after winter shooed them away. Here are some of the species traveling to or ...

wildfires and invasive species. Even forest birds, facing habitat degradation from fire suppression and industrial timber practices, are seeing widespread declines. Waterfowl, once considered a ...