Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna. And, up until about a thousand years ago, it was home to the world’s largest known bird species. Meet Madagascar’s legendary ...

Hosts Kaitlen Daigle and Lauren Phinney spoke with Agnes Barrelet, executive director of Alpine Acres Sanctuary Farm, about ...

5. Ostrich The ostrich is theworld’s largest bird, standing up to 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and weighing more than 300 pounds (136 kg). While they might look comical from a distance, these flightless giants ...

The Andean condor is one of the world’s largest flying birds, but habitat loss and poisoning threaten its future.

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...

Q. I am pretty sure that ostriches are the biggest birds in the world. But what is the biggest bird in North America? A. The first step is to define “big.” Andrew Lydeard, program coordinator of ...

Eagles are truly impressive birds for a wide variety of reasons. This article takes a look at the largest eagles in the world according toweight. Certain species are relatively small while sporting an ...