A writer bears witness to New York’s endangered species.

What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.

Over the past 14 years, Martin Guth has built a monopoly on some of the world’s rarest birds. Will his secretive organization ultimately help put more parrots in the wild, as he says or—push them closer to extinction?

A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill—rats.

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

Birds like Roseate Spoonbills and Burrowing Owls are ending up in the stomachs of hungry pythons and nile monitors. Is it too late to stop them?

A peculiar obsession turns into a complicated downfall.

Among other things, crows can recognize human faces—and train each other to avoid people they don’t like.

After thousands of birds vanished overnight from a Florida refuge, conspiracy theories bloomed.

The story of a pair of murdered whooping cranes and just how difficult it is to save a endangered species.

The surprising bond between damaged birds and traumatized veterans.

Tracking the humble hummingbird down to Belize.

A story of bird and human patterns.

"Rose is nothing without him because difference defines everything. The eyes of the Cooper’s hawk are closer to the front of the head than the sharp-shinned hawk. The downy woodpecker’s bill is small relative to its head while the hairy woodpecker’s bill is long and thick. House finches are more slender than purple finches. When she finds his hairs scattered on the pillow, they are straight, black pins while hers are bright, red commas."

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

A personal reflection on bird-watching and relationships.

The disappearance of a legendary scavenger could have dire consequences for a swelling human population.