The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

An Imperial woodpecker hasn't been provably sighted since 1956, making it the holy grail for bird watchers in Mexico.

The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood?

The researchers have commented on how the behaviour of the new species has a striking resemblance to the dodo. The ...