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How Do Birds Find Their Way Home?
Birds must be geniuses because they use quantum mechanics to navigate
May 2012 |
By Laura Helmuth
The Disappearing Habitats of the Vaux’s Swifts
Chimneys may be obsolete in modern buildings, but they’re crucial habitat for the bird species on the West Coast
November 18, 2011 |
By Maria Dolan
A Call to Save the Whooping Crane
Smithsonian researchers join an international effort to bring the five-foot-tall bird back from the brink of extinction
November 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
A Buddhist Monk Saves One of the World's Rarest Birds
High in the Himalayas, the Tibetan bunting is getting help from a very special friend
October 2011 |
By Phil McKenna
The Hawks in Your Backyard
Biologists scale city trees to bag a surprisingly urban species, the Cooper's Hawk
August 23, 2011 |
By Eric Wagner
Wild Things: Tarantulas, Jellyfish and More...
Hummingbirds, attacking bears, ancient hominids and other news updates in wildlife research
August 2011 |
By T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth, Erin Wayman and Sarah Zielinski
North America’s Most Endangered Animals
Snails, marmots, condors and coral reef are among the many species on the continent that are close to extinction
May 19, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino, Erin Wayman and Sarah Zielinski
The DMZ's Thriving Resident: The Crane
Rare cranes have flourished in the world's unlikeliest sanctuary, the heavily mined demilitarized zone between North and South Korea
April 2011 |
By Eric Wagner
A Close Encounter With the Rarest Bird
Newfound negatives provide fresh views of the young ivory-billed woodpecker
September 2010 |
By Stephen Lyn Bales
The Little Owls That Live Underground
Burrowing owls can thrive amid agricultural development and urbanization—so why are they imperiled?
May 13, 2010 |
By John Moir
The World’s Fastest Animal Takes New York
The peregrine falcon, whose salvation began 40 years ago, commands the skies above the Empire State Building
December 10, 2009 |
By Meera Subramanian
Wildlife Trafficking
A reporter follows the lucrative, illicit and heartrending trade in stolen wild animals deep into Ecuador's rain forest
December 2009 |
By Charles Bergman
The Spotted Owl's New Nemesis
An battle between environmentalists and loggers left much of the owl's habitat protected. Now the spotted owl faces a new threat
January 2009 |
By Craig Welch
Invasion of the Cassowaries
Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?
October 2008 |
By Brendan Borrell
Condors in a Coal Mine
California's lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans
September 09, 2008 |
By John Moir
Wiseguys with Wings
"Mafia" cowbirds muscle warblers into raising their young
March 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
The Vanishing
Little noticed by the outside world, perhaps the most dramatic decline of a wild animal in history has been taking place in India and Pakistan. Large vultures, vitally necessary and once numbering in the tens of millions, now face extinction. But why?
February 2007 |
By Susan McGrath
Ghost of a Chance
How did the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct, hang on all these years?
August 2005 |
By Scott Weidensaul
