The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

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The pigeon family includes over 300 species worldwide, ranging from familiar city dwellers to rare tropical birds. Notable members include: Pigeons have compact bodies, short legs, and small heads ...

An expedition team made up of scientists and conservationists began their search to rediscover the bird in September Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The passenger pigeon was once the most numerous bird in the world. In the mid-1800s, billions of these birds were flying over the forests of eastern North America. Yet in just half a century, they’d ...

As human development expands, birds are losing vital jobs in nature. This article explores what that means for ecosystem ...

The type of seed that attracts the widest variety of birds to your feeders is sunflower seed, according to Cornell’s ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...