This species is highly regarded in ancient ... Red-tailed hawks are another North American bird of prey, and they are often ...

As the climate crisis worsens, so does pressure on wildlife. The number of birds in North America has declined by 3 billion in the last 50 years. Brooke Bateman, director of climate science at the ...

The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday that it will choose new monikers for North ... species on a case-by-case basis, the organization decided to change all eponymous bird ...

North American bird populations are shrinking most rapidly in the very areas where they are still most abundant, according to a new study leveraging citizen science data for nearly 500 bird species.

The decisions combined the common redpoll and hairy redpoll, split up the barn owl into three species, and changed grammar. Defining a species is, like any other scientific endeavor, subject to ...

The birds’ new names will reflect the species’ appearance or habitat ... This change, which will affect some 150 North American birds, has been a long time coming. Ornithologists and ...

In the American Ornithological Union’s original checklist of North American birds, Wilson’s snipes were a distinct species from the Common snipes of Europe and Asia. Then, in the mid-1940s ...

"Anna's hummingbird" is one of 60-70 birds in North America slated ... just a few of the dozens of bird species that will receive new monikers from the American Ornithological Society this year.