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From Five Pairs Left to 25,000 Birds: New Red List Shows Hope as 20 Species Move Farther From Extinction

From three species of Arctic seals to more than half of all birds globally, several animals have slipped closer to extinction ...
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Parrots of the Caribbean: Birding tourism offers hope for threatened species

Four species of parrots endemic to Caribbean islands in the Lesser Antilles — St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Dominica — are clinging to existence amid a volley of hurricanes and volcanic eruptions that ...

61% bird species face declining numbers globally: IUCN

The IUCN Red List update includes reassessments of 1,360 bird species by BirdLife International. It also includes 172,620 ...
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Endangered Species Day: Pennsylvania’s endangered birds

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — More than half of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s state-listed endangered and threatened species in Pennsylvania are birds. Four bird species are threatened and 16 are ...
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‘Lost’ birds list will aid in protecting species

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 ...
MLive

Bumblebees, bats, birds and more added to Michigan’s threatened, endangered species list

A range of Michigan’s vast biodiversity is reflected in the state’s recent update to its list of threatened and endangered species – insects, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, and a whole bunch of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These ‘Lost’ Bird Species Haven’t Been Seen in at Least a Decade—and Scientists Want Help Finding Them

A species that was previously considered lost, the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, was rediscovered in 2022. Doka Nason / American Bird Conservancy Nearly 12,000 species of birds exist in the wild, and ...