"Birds" Blogs & Blog Posts

The dodo, a flightless bird once unique to Mauritius and hunted to extinction there, is to be re-introduced by genetically engineering fresh ones. The genomes of it and the Nicobar pigeon, the dodo's closest living relative, have been fully sequenced...

These Australian Magpies sound like an experimental noise music band. I can hardly believe that these noises are coming from animals and not electronics. The sounds they make are so bizarre and cool, and I think they need to record and album asap. &#...

The campaign launched by John Oliver, host of the HBO show "Last Week Tonight," for the Pūteketeke to win New Zealand's Bird of the Century contest resulted in a massive landslide for the colorful water bird. The online voting event is held by Ne...

Recent beachgoers at northern Australia's Bingil Bay were shocked to see a huge cassowary—known as the "world's most dangerous bird"—emerge from the ocean. Video below. The Australian Southern Cassowary is endangered, making sightings extremely r...

Every year, the registered charitable organization Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc.—aka "Forest & Bird"—asks the public to determine Aotearoa New Zealand's bird of the year. Well, this year the organizati...

A silly green parrot named Rex tries to get her human's attention in a game called distract-me-if-you-can. While the bird's playmate stands statue-still, Rex chirps with a wide-open beak while bobbing her feathery face just millimeters away from her...

U.S. Wildlife Service officials report that they are removing 21 entries from the list of endangered species because they are extinct. Here's the full list, mostly birds and mussels, such as Bachman's warbler. Most of the species were listed und...