BackgroundBird populations are facing unprecedented global pressures from climate change, habitat fragmentation, land use ...

Can a species bounce back from being 'extinct in the wild'? The blue-winged macaw is showing how it can be done.

Manakins can move so quickly that they often appear only as blurs of blue or red as they flit along the rainforest floors of ...

Every spring and fall, in North America, weather radar captures something besides the actual weather. As large flocks of ...

Researchers at Cornell Lab of Ornithology, University of Massachusetts and University of Illinois have developed breakthrough methods to track the migration of individual bird species by combining ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Abstract: This paper proposes the Bird Species Classification System, which automatically classifies images of birds into their respective species by adopting a deep learning approach with ...

Bad news for Seattle birdwatchers: The Emerald City’s bird communities are in trouble. Average bird counts across Seattle dropped by 21% from 2005 to 2023, according to a new study from Birds Connect ...

Every year, billions of birds migrate long distances with the changing of seasons — according to BirdLife Africa, 40 to 50 percent of avian species migrating to and from Africa are in decline.

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

In 2025, birders and scientists found five “lost” bird species that had gone undocumented for a decade or more. As Mongabay’s Spoorthy Raman reports, these findings have helped reduce the total number ...

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