birds

After 24 years of not being seen, the Dusky Tetraka bird was recently rediscovered in northeastern Madagascar. The small bird has an olive and yellow throat and moves around on the ground. A team from The Peregrine Fund's Madagascar Program...

A surprising sight caught the attention of people at Bingil Bay on Australia's eastern coast this Halloween. In the water, there was a mysterious, dark shape, causing a stir. Initially, people believed it might be a shark's fin or even...

An enormous vulture in distress fell randomly in the sea in Crete, but was lucky to be rescued by an unsuspecting beachgoer.

Animals were an important part of life in antiquity, and Ancient Greeks loved their pets. Ancient sources tell us that they kept a wide variety of animals at home, ranging from dogs to snakes. Paintings, writings, and sculptures from ancient...

A video showing a massive flock of birds suddenly dropping out of the sky and dying in Mexico has gone viral on social media. The yellow-headed blackbirds went from flying in a swarm in Cuauhtémoc city, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to...

A massive flock of starlings descended near the city of Patras, Greece on Wednesday recreating a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's horror-thriller The Birds. Thousands of starlings flew near and over the Rio-Antirrio bridge in a tight sphere-like formation. They are...

A study published on November 17 found that there are 600 million fewer birds in Europe than there were just 40 years ago. The study was led by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which looked at...

An extraordinary and beautiful story of humans helping animals took place recently in the air between Cyprus and Greece. Two young rosy pelicans which had failed to complete their migration and became "stranded" on the island nation of Cyprus were...

The National Forest and Park Management Authority of Dadia, Lefkimi, and Soufli announced on Wednesday that two rare raptors were found killed recently next to wind turbines in south Evros, in northeastern Greece. On August 19, a lesser spotted eagle...

A large flock of graceful, beautiful rose flamingos was spotted on Tuesday off Greece’s town of Nea Kios, in the northeastern Peloponnesian Peninsula. Tourists and people from the local area spotted the huge birds arriving in their town and rushed...