His picture of a pioneer flight of ancestral finches being ... Out of this they have gleaned numerous bird genera and at least 50 extinct species new to science. And there is more to uncover.

It is the first mainland European bird to go extinct in the last 500 years ... of white under its tail typically only visible during flight. But what made the slender-billed curlew most notable ...

On a tiny volcanic island in Bermuda, a two-man conservation outfit is using DIY tech to help a ‘Lazarus’ bird species make a ...

After analyzing mitochondrial DNA from two elephant bird species, the researchers found that the extinct birds are most ... for the ratites to give up flight for life on the ground.

So a team of scientists and conservationists stepped in as foster parents and flight instructors ... to reintroduce a continentally extinct migratory bird species. But while northern bald ...

But then he noticed it intermittently tucking its wings during flight, something he says that ducks ... along with 22 other species, extinct. The decision would remove the bird from the federal list ...

Several decades earlier, the idea of passenger pigeons going extinct was almost unimaginable. People living in North America in the first half of the nineteenth century would have been familiar with ...

The flight continued through the ... learn to be a passenger pigeon. Perhaps the birds would be little more than a genetic approximation of their extinct relatives, unable to survive in the ...

“Not only did Wisconsin host the largest recorded nesting of passenger pigeons in 1871, but the Wisconsin Society of Ornithology also created a monument to the extinct bird at Wyalusing State Park.” ...