Juliet Vickery has received funding from the UK government through the Darwin Initiative. Viola Ross-Smith and David Noble of the British Trust for Ornithology helped write this article. The red list ...

A superb fairy-wren calls to a Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo. Brood parasites like cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave them behind for the host birds to raise. David Ongley / Cornell Lab of ...

Climate change is not only driving the extinction of many bird species, but it may also mean that the birds that survive will have less diverse physical features. In the last 50 years, the US and ...

Hurricane Lee brought warblers and other colorful species rarely seen in Britain and Ireland for what will most likely be a temporary visit. By Derrick Bryson Taylor More than a dozen species of North ...

Conservationists fear a highly pathogenic bird flu is to blame for a growing wave of mortality in UK seabirds, which were already facing severe pressure from climate change and overfishing. The H5N1 ...