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New research shows that these apex predators wait for food to fall out of the sky during migration.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delayed its decision on the Saltmarsh Sparrow’s endangered status to 2023. Scientists say that might be too late.

After two years and a lot of hard work, a student-run campaign to make the Black-crowned Night-Heron the city's mascot sees success.

The dramatic ups and downs of a Piping Plover family in Gloucester, Massachusetts, show what it takes to protect a threatened species.

An official report says that South Florida's wading birds had an even better 2018 than we thought.

Male wrens grow up mimicking their fathers' songs—until it's time to claim their own territories.

Conservationists recently discovered a Colombian brush-finch only known by museum specimens. Now they’re racing to save it from habitat loss.

The EPA blocked the Yazoo Pumps proposal in 2008, saying it would devastate bird-rich habitat. Now the agency is reconsidering.

The birds' critical food stores, saved up each autumn for lean times later, risk going bad as global temperatures warm.

The elegant birds are raising a gosling as well their own colt this year in a Michigan park.