The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood? Bessent says White ...

Conservationists are racing to save the manumea, a chicken-sized bird that lives only on two Samoan islands, from extinction ...

As a critically endangered species, the manumea could be considered mostly dead, but there’s a big difference between that ...

Dodo’s closest living relative spotted in remote South Pacific rainforest - Manumea’s first sighting since 2013 raises hope ...

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A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...

And nothing — other than housing — raises consumer ire better than the high costs of a new car. Indeed, of late, one of the most popular sorts of article — and by “popular,” I mean ...

If ever there was a bird for the job, it’s a Cockatoo named Sweet Pea. This funny girl is a total pro at supervising any ...

Considering Cockatoos have the intellect comparable to a toddler, that tracks, so you do you, bud! He even has the sweetest ...