Threatened with extinction only a few decades ago, a tiny bird has since become one of Michigan’s biggest conservation success stories. In what’s being celebrated as the culmination of decades of ...

The Kirtland’s warbler, a species that was close to extinction five decades ago, is now thriving and has been removed from the U.S. federal list of endangered species. Where there were fewer than 200 ...

Federal officials have recommended removing the golden-cheeked warbler from the endangered species list, a decision that could alter future debates about development in the Hill Country. It could also ...

Last May, birder Lowell Burket scored a major find. The Pennsylvania native photographed what he believed was a super-rare, three-species hybrid on his property, a guess that was just confirmed in a ...

Increasingly hot and dry summers in Oregon and Washington have started to affect some of our most impressive travelers – the songbirds that migrate thousands of miles to breed here each spring. OSU ...

PROVIDENCE – If you’re into birds and you’ve heard about a new effort to rename species now named after historical figures, the good news is that you’ll have to learn new names for only two birds that ...

A hybrid yellow-rumped warbler and black-throated blue warbler was discovered on Hilton Head. It’s the first hybrid of this kind ever recorded. Mary Alice Tartler Mary Alice Tartler knows her birds, ...

Any week now, the Kirtland's warbler will come off the endangered species list. Therein flies some problems. The escape from federal protection, mind you, is good news. The Kirtland's warbler has been ...