The ivory-billed woodpecker is one of the most celebrated birds in U.S. history, a bird that has been an American superstar since pre-colonial times. Even though it has been presumed extinct for 60 ...

A spectacular bird that became an emblem for lost, wild America after it was thought to have been driven to extinction more than 60 years ago has been discovered in the deep, hardwood swamps of ...

What do Sasquatch, the Jersey Devil, and the ivory-billed woodpecker all have in common? None of them officially exist. Last confirmed alive in 1944, intermittant reports of sightings of the ...

The “Lord God bird” may have risen from the dead. Ornithologists say the ivory-billed woodpecker -- given its divine-sounding nickname because of its large size -- may still be out there in remote ...

This article originally appeared on The Revelator. On Sept. 29, 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intention to remove 23 long-unseen species from the protection of the Endangered ...

NEW YORK — On Fridays, he collects the pictures. One week, he brought home 125,000 from the dozen cameras scattered throughout the woods of eastern Arkansas. During the week, he looks through every ...

In mid-February, acclaimed nature writer Scott Weidensaul got a call from the editor of Nature Conservancy magazine with a cryptic request. “She said, “We’d like you to do a story but we can’t tell ...

Since the Endangered Species Act was established nearly 50 years ago in the United States, the Fish and Wildlife Service has prevented the extinction of more than 99 per cent of the species listed in ...

Over five years ago, I wrote a column about birds that are, and should be, NFL mascots. I pointed out that northern cardinals are not scary no matter how you paint ...