The BBC reported that the Galapagos rail, a small, mostly flightless bird, has returned to Floreana Island. The rail's ...

A possibly rare bird found near Slidell sparked wonder and debate online over whether it was a melanistic Great Blue Heron.

The northern cardinal seems an obvious choice for Indiana’s state animal. Its vivid red feathers stand out against winter ...

New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

Here are seven rare bird sightings that have been spotted across Suffolk. A Turkestan shrike was at Dunwich Heath for a few days in October, with people travelling to the site just to see it. This ...

The wallcreeper, a rare bird species from the wallcreeper family native to Europe, was spotted in the Arbel Nature Reserve ...

A rare bird has been spotted close to the north Norfolk coast. The Eastern Black Redstart has been flying around the ...

Twelve years after Australia’s 'extinct' night parrot was rediscovered, a worrying new investigation has revealed swathes of ...

"It's probably the second rarest bird to appear in 60 years at Tophilll Low after 2008's Amur falcon which, at the time, was ...

Kākāpō ( Strigops habroptilus) are large, flightless, nocturnal parrots with mottled green and yellow plumage that only breed ...

Biologists believe simple confusion caused the Bullock's Oriole to fly to Vermont, as opposed to the western U.S. or Mexico, ...

A rare bird which was thought to have all-but vanished from Northern Ireland has turned up... behind a bin on Belfast's ...