WASHINGTON - A small greenish bird that has been playing hide-and-seek with ornithologists on a remote Indonesian island since 1996 was declared a newly discovered species on Friday and promptly recommended for endangered lists.
The new species is called the Togian white-eye, or Zosterops somadikartai.
It was first spotted by Mochamad Indrawan of the University of Indonesia […]

Feb. 13, 2008 — A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.
The discovery revealed the most primitive bat known, from a previously unrecognized species that lived some 25.5 million years ago.
Its […]

Feb. 12, 2008 — One of the emblems of the Antarctic, the king penguin, could be driven to extinction by climate change, a French study has warned.
In a long-term investigation on the penguins’ main breeding grounds, investigators found that a tiny warming of the Southern Ocean by the El Nino effect caused a massive fall […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ― Two men were sentenced to two years of probation for freeing a red-tailed hawk from his enclosure at a Springfield zoo.
Sean Coleman, 21, of Glenarm, and Adam Loper, 22, of St. Paul, Minn., were sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor stemming from the 2005 caper.
The hawk named Mani had […]

Fuel spilled from the Cosco Busan more than two weeks ago continued its carnage of San Francisco Bay wildlife over the Thanksgiving weekend, with 173 local and migratory birds killed or found killed, taking the grim death toll Sunday to 2,125 birds and a harbor seal.
Hundreds of trained volunteers and workers have collected and rescued […]

NEW YORK - Put your hands up and back away from the breadcrumbs. Feeding New York City pigeons could soon be banned under a proposal to thin the flocks of the birds sometimes referred to as “rats with wings.”
City Councilman Simcha Felder plans to introduce legislation to ban pigeon feeding and fine those caught flouting […]

A noisy parrot that likes to imitate sounds helped save a man and his son from a house fire by mocking a smoke alarm, the bird’s owner says.
Shannon Conwell, 33, said he and his 9-year-old son fell asleep on the couch while watching a movie. They awoke about 3 a.m. Friday, Oct. 19th to […]

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia faces the extinction of 45 bird species in the next five to 10 years if it fails to introduce protected areas and breeding programmes for endangered species, a report said Thursday.
A recent survey by conservation group BirdLife International found that five species were critically endangered, four were endangered and […]

(WCCO) Before each Minnesota winter, the temperatures head south and so do the birds.
A long time ago, nobody knew bird migrated and naturalists believed that birds hibernated in the mud. Now we know they flock toward warmer weather, but how do they know when it’s time to go?
“Birds are quite amazing,” said Dr. Susan […]

(AP) U.S. Customs officials in Minnesota and North Dakota seized more than 4,100 birds from hunters re-entering the United States from Canada following an outbreak of avian flu at a commercial chicken farm near Regina, Saskatchewan.
Mike Milne of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the birds were confiscated at entry points in Warroad and Portal […]