The Louisiade pitta is one of the "lost" species found in 2022 and 2023 on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea. There had been no definite record of this bird since 1898. A group of scientists has ...

Thomas Jefferson, who penned the essence of democracy in the phrase “… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…” in our nation’s Declaration of Independence, was also an avid bird-watcher. He ...

Sociable Weavers build the largest communal nests, housing over a hundred families. Bowerbirds create decorated bowers purely for courtship, not for raising young. Malleefowl incubate eggs using heat ...

A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade, with the help of Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Their ...