Learn about extinct bird species of North America, including passenger pigeons, seaside sparrows, the ivory-billed woodpecker ...

The study's findings show mergansers arrived in the New Zealand region at least seven million years ago from the Northern Hemisphere, in a separate colonisation event to that which led to the ...

During a joint expedition to the mountains of western Cuba, researchers uncovered a rare complete bone from a bird that lived between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago. The humerus, pulled from a ...

Europe's most endangered ducks are back on track. According to the European Commission, the Spanish Marbled ducks' population has more than quadrupled since 2009, going from a mere 20 breeding pairs ...

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. Alexander Verry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Three years ago, biologists dressed all in black crept around the wetlands of a small desert island in the middle of the night. Their goal: to capture 20 Laysan Ducks. Those snatched ducks became ...

Multiple state agencies are on alert after the first case of avian flu was found on Kauai in an endangered native duck that ...

A new University of Otago-led study has uncovered the origins of a mysterious lineage of mergansers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Mergansers are riverine and coastal fish-eating ducks predominantly found ...