The Endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is one of the rarest birds in Australia, with fewer than 20 known alive ...

Some elusive birds can be hard to protect, particularly when they move under cover of darkness and lie low in thick desert grass. This is the case with the night parrot-- a small green-and-yellow ...

Dozens of birders descended on Vancouver’s Sunset Beach Park on Sunday to catch a rare glimpse of a bird that avian ...

Some birds are hard to find due to migration patterns, climate preferences, or breeding schedules, but you could spot a rare ...

It's always fun to watch birds perched on your backyard trees or feeding stations. And if they happen to be a rare sight in your area? You could easily spend a few hours looking up their ID, logging ...

Some amazing news has emerged from Brazil, and conservationists at the Chester Zoo are thrilled. According to the BBC, three blue-eyed ground dove chicks, one of the world's rarest bird species, have ...

A December or January eastern phoebe (a flycatcher) is a rare find here, although the same individual would be commonplace in warmer months. Although common here from roughly mid-September through mid ...

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.

"Like great crested grebes, they have an elaborate courtship display involving pairs meeting breast-to-breast and rising from the water, with lots of head shaking. As breeding red-necked grebes in the ...

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From rare glossy ibis and a great white egret, to a black-crowned night heron and an entire flock of chiffchaffs.