A tiny sparrow, trapped for days in a sealed shop in Kerala's Ullikkal village, sparked an extraordinary rescue. Local residents, officials, and even judges collaborated, overcoming legal hurdles to ...

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Every year, millions of individual birds migrate through Manitoba. These birds rely on pit stops – safe places where they can rest and feed before the next leg of their long journeys. Large pit stops, ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Powerful gusts shook an observation post perched on a hill at a wind farm in South Africa as two monitors scanned the landscape through binoculars. The Overberg mountains stretched along the horizon, ...

Rita Dove is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a former U.S. Poet Laureate. Her books include the collection “Playlist for the Apocalypse.” She teaches at the University of Virginia. “The festival of ...

With the $3 billion convention center project underway in downtown Dallas, conservation groups say the project could play a key role in saving migratory birds. Each spring and fall, billions of birds ...

New Zealand plans to eradicate millions of invasive animals that threaten its rare birds. The goal may be out of reach unless new technology makes... To save its unique and rare birds, New Zealand is ...

The saltmarsh sparrow population has declined by nearly 90% since 1998 due to rising sea levels flooding their ground nests. A research group in Rhode Island is using homemade floating nests, or "arks ...

Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks — planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: ...

New Zealand's unique birds are at risk of extinction, like the kiwi. So the country is trying to eradicate the invasive species that prey on them.... To save its rare birds, New Zealand is relying on ...