Emergency rescue plan is being rolled out for a bird so rare that survey teams searching across 12 mountains in Java failed ...

Chester Zoo is playing a central role in the international effort to protect the Javan green magpie, a species that has almost vanished from ...

There may be fewer than 250 surviving in the world ...

Teetering on the brink of extinction, Indonesia’s Javan green magpie may have a conservation lifeline after national and international conservation NGOs launched an action plan to preserve it in the ...

Located in the South Pacific Ocean, this mixed serial property bears an exceptional testimony to the territorial occupation of the Marquesas archipelago by a human civilisation that arrived by sea ...

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

Two Guam kingfisher chicks that hatched at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh are part of a program to help restore the bird ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

A bird stalking African wetlands carries its young in a way so bizarre that witnesses have mistaken it for something far more ...

Manakins can move so quickly that they often appear only as blurs of blue or red as they flit along the rainforest floors of South and Central America. The males, known for their elaborate courtship ...