According to the Sussex Ornithological Society, eagle-eyed residents recently witnessed a red-necked grebe and a black-necked ...

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

Kākāpō ( Strigops habroptilus) are large, flightless, nocturnal parrots with mottled green and yellow plumage that only breed ...

Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks — planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

If you're lucky, your garden might provide food, shelter or nesting sites for rare bird species. Learn about some of these ...