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Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page ‘We visited the Lanterns of the Wild display at Twycross Zoo to get into the Christmas ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced Thursday that it had five preliminary positive cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in Suffolk County.

Bruce M. Beehler is a naturalist and author. His most recent book is “Flight of the Godwit: Tracking Epic Shorebird Migrations.” Could anything be more humbling to the puffed-up human race than the ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

If you've ever wandered around the green spaces of Coventry it is quite likely you've spotted a brightly coloured bird that looks like it doesn't belong. Longford Park, the Wyken Slough and Coundon ...

If you've noticed an unusual silence in your garden despite maintaining a well-filled birdfeeder, you might be experiencing an issue with parakeets – but there's a straightforward solution to deter ...

A man who tried to smuggle a dozen birds through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry was sentenced Monday. Mexican citizen Lajud Libien hid 12 orange-fronted parakeets, a protected species, in his boots and ...