WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 6, 2026) Does humanity want to live in a world without birds? This may seem like an extreme question, but a new study in Science concludes that, without changes in human ...

The 66th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds, published in Ornithology, includes several significant updates to the classification of bird ...

A newly published study has found that nearly 75% of bird species in North America are sharply declining across their ranges, and eight in 10 plummeting in the very areas where they’re thought to be ...

Great egrets and little blue herons. Blue-winged warblers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. Snowy owls and tropical kingbirds. Across North America, three-fourths of bird species are in decline, ...

When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in Bloomington, Ind., suddenly fell silent. In the middle of the forest, the only sounds ...

In a talk titled The Courage of Birds: And the Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter, bird expert Pete Dunne will discuss the adaptations of North American birds that allow them to survive ...