The first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been seen or heard in more than a decade, as reported by citizen scientists, has been released by scientists. The Louisiade pitta (Erythropitta meeki ...

The Louisiade pitta is one of the "lost" species found in 2022 and 2023 on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea. There had been no definite record of this bird since 1898. A group of scientists has ...

Birders in 2025 rediscovered five species of birds that scientists hadn’t documented in the wild for at least 10 years, according to the latest update of the Lost Birds List. All of the “found” birds ...

New to birding? Start with the basics. Learn to recognize 15 common backyard birds, and discover ways to attract them to your yard.

Not all birds can fly. Some birds have lost the ability to take to the skies. These are called flightless birds. They belong to different parts of the world and have unique features. Flightless birds ...

In 2025, birders and scientists found five “lost” bird species that had gone undocumented for a decade or more. As Mongabay’s Spoorthy Raman reports, these findings have helped reduce the total number ...

Sociable Weavers build the largest communal nests, housing over a hundred families. Bowerbirds create decorated bowers purely for courtship, not for raising young. Malleefowl incubate eggs using heat ...

A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade, with the help of Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Their ...