The Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), last seen in the wild in 1988, is making a comeback. Thanks to years of ...

To many of these young people, birdwatching offers a window into another world. "It's like Harry Potter," said Wu Yue, a ...

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Sihek – an endangered bird recently returned to the wild – have laid eggs on their new Pacific island home at Palmyra Atoll, ...

A bird hide designed to resemble an air traffic control tower has been unveiled near Heathrow airport. The structure allows visitors to watch wildlife at one of the 13 nature reserves on land owned by ...

A bird once declared extinct in the wild has just laid eggs in Hawaii. The sihek vanished by the 1980s after the accidental ...

The birds were eliminated when the invasive brown treesnake was accidentally introduced to the island of Guam in the ’40s.

One of the birds that laid eggs was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, which played a key role in the decades-long project.

Catherine Cruz reports on the sihek, an endangered bird that recently returned to the wild and laid eggs at their new Pacific island home, Palmyra Atoll.

In September 2024, nine Sihek birds – also known as Guam kingfishers – were released at the Nature Conservancy’s Palmyra Atoll Preserve in the Pacific Ocean. The birds, four females and five males, ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Birds that had been designated extinct in the wild are now laying eggs on an island in the Pacific and the Cincinnati Zoo played a big role. The Guam Kingfisher (also known as ...

The birds use their powerful beaks to hunt skinks, geckos, spiders, beetles and land crabs. Martin Kastner The Guam kingfisher, known as the “sihek” to the Indigenous CHamoru people ...