There's a quiet that has been settling over American backyards for decades now. It's not the peaceful kind. Since 1970, ...

Something subtle has been happening in the skies above North America for decades. The V-formations of geese, the first ...

You see this bird all over Connecticut, but how well do you know it? 5 fun facts about Connecticut's state bird, the American ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The IUCN Red List, which assesses the extinction risk of ...

Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Although worrying, the new case doesn’t change much about the predicted trajectory of bird flu. For months, experts have warned that ...

John LaMacchia, “Red Knot” (2016), from the series Birds of America John James Audubon’s Birds of America series captures the wondrous appearances and behaviors of North American avians, recording 435 ...

Birds, more than other animal groups, have had a horrific time with extinction, especially over the past several hundred years. Here’s one uniquely American example. The extinct heath hen (Tympanuchus ...

As the climate crisis worsens, so does pressure on wildlife. The number of birds in North America has declined by 3 billion in the last 50 years. Brooke Bateman, director of climate science at the ...

The bird, believed to be a species of Grackle native to the Americas, has been photographed in Speke An exotic bird native to the Americas has been spotted in Liverpool in what is believed to be only ...