The world’s rarest parrot is suddenly back in the spotlight for the best possible reason: after a four year lull, New Zealand’s kākāpō are laying eggs again and launching a fresh breeding season that ...

A bird watcher has described the "truly extraordinary" moment he spotted a rare bird of prey in flight over a Hampshire ...

A restored wetland in Cheshire is now home to almost two-thirds of the UK's breeding black-necked grebes, one of the country's rarest breeding birds. Woolston Eyes, near Warrington, was previously a ...

For years, conservation teams in New Zealand followed individual parrots that lived long enough to outlast the people studying them. Some males returned to the same display sites each breeding season ...

Brazil’s red-tailed amazon parrot is a rare success story for reviving a species heading toward extinction, Mongabay Brasil’s Xavier Bartaburu reports. By the end of the 20th century, the population ...

A rare bird normally associated with eastern Europe and Central Asia has drawn birdwatchers to a reservoir near Bolton.

A rare bird in danger of vanishing forever from one of Scotland's islands is making a comeback as conservationists adopt new ways to help it thrive. Numbers of the corncrake had p ...

Yesterday morning, a kakapo chick hatched on a small island in New Zealand. The newborn bird brings the world population of kakapo—a flightless parrot and one of the world's rarest birds—back to 125 ...

Native to eastern Asia, the blue rock thrush has only been spotted in Oregon once before. Now it's made appearances at Broughton Beach near PDX Airport.