Over 30 years ago I started participating in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Every year around New Year’s Day, a carload of ...

There's good news and bad news in the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) report. The good news: The peregrine falcon and the sea otter no longer face extinction. The ...

The story began two months earlier on Daheishan islet in Bohai Bay, a part of Changdao National Nature Reserve in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Yantai. A small, black-spotted falcon was found ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Though the bird is still listed as endangered, its population is growing. Kevin Wenner, a ...

One of the fastest birds in the sky is Falco peregrinis. The peregrine falcon has been clocked at speeds of 60 miles per hour on level flight and more than 80 mph in dives. Their speed and agility ...

A bat falcon, a species that lives in Mexico and Central America, was spotted in the USA for the first time in history. The falcon was hanging around at the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in South ...

OSLO, NORWAY – Smuggling is driving many species of falcon toward extinction in an illicit market where prized birds can sell for a million dollars each, experts said this week. The black market in ...

Wildlife officials are intensifying efforts to restore the peregrine falcon population in Massachusetts by banding chicks in downtown Boston. The falcon species is listed as one of special concern ...

Looks like: Peregrines are about the same size as a large crow. They have black backs and facial "sideburns," long pointed wings and a narrow tail. Lives in: Diverse habitats with cliffs for nesting ...

Pennsylvania wildlife experts reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the federal Endangered Species Act have embraced the successes of the legislation and are continuing the fight to “keep common ...

The three peregrine falcon chicks born in the nest on Pitt's Cathedral of Learning were banded on Wednesday, helping scientists study the species that was considered endangered in Pennsylvania for ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Peregrine falcon chicks are going to be banded by Mass Fisheries & Wildlife at Monarch Place in Springfield on Friday, an effort that makes the birds identifiable for ...