Known with affection and a dash of humor as Twitchers for their sudden excitement when spotting a rare species, bird lovers from all corners of the globe flock to Africa for the vast numbers of unique ...

The greater honeyguide learned to lead humans to beehives, luring them with the promise of honey so they’d unlock the wax the ...

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The authors concluded that as a group, Africa's diurnal raptors — those active during the day like eagles — "are facing an extinction crisis, with more than two-thirds of the species examined ...

Colin Beale receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust, Defra, USAID and the Natural Environment Research Council. Like millions of people around the world, I love watching birds. They’re so ...

Introduced by esteemed conservationist Jane Goodall and narrated by National Geographic’s Bill Jones, the film features stories of competition, courtship, family, hunting and flight to illustrate the ...

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s migratory birds are threatened by changing weather patterns in the center and east of the continent that have depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating ...

Forest-dwelling bird species are disappearing from some of South Africa's indigenous forests, with forest birds in the Eastern Cape being the most affected. A new study showed that the ranges of 28 of ...

Now that the deadly bird flu virus has spread to poultry in northern Nigeria, experts say it is almost certain to spread further in Africa. Nigeria's poultry population is estimated at 140 million ...

Dutch inspectors seized 498 exotic birds from a warehouse in Noord-Brabant and arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of ...