More species are being designated as vulnerable or endangered worldwide due to habitat loss, climate change, and human ...

In late December, a purple gallinule, a striking marsh bird native to the southeastern United States, the Caribbean, and Central America, was found in Houlton, Maine, hundreds of miles outside its ...

The Long Island Aquarium's colony of South African penguins do not like cold weather. See the "beach bums" waddle inside.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just ...

While the heaviest snowstorm the region has seen this winter slammed into New England, two African penguin chicks hatched at Mystic Aquarium.

Among the species sighted, 57 are migratory, and 111 are resident, said an official of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, which ...

It used to be that if you wanted to see a black-bellied whistling duck in the United States, then the Rio Grande Valley was ...

Take a peek into the always entertaining lives of birds, from intimate moments with mates to fierce fights for territory.

Across the tropical Pacific, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are slipping out of existence, turning once noisy, living forests into quieter, emptier places. Nowhere is that loss more ...

The roseate tern is Massachusetts's most iconic—and only endangered— seabird, relying mainly on two offshore islands in the Bay State for breeding. Listed as endangered at both ...

Native to Africa and the Indian subcontinent, parakeets may look out of place in London skies, but they are anything but. Many of the UK’s native birds have struggled to cope with urban life, and ...