A grasshopper sparrow perches on a barbed wire fence, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in Denton, Neb. North America's grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after the adoption of the Endangered ...

This change, which will affect some 150 North American birds, has been a long time coming. Ornithologists and amateur birders alike have long wrestled with the historical nature of bird names ...

Why Dozens of North American Birds Will Soon Get New Names In a bid to make birding more inclusive, the American Ornithological Society will give new monikers to several species named after people ...

Birds are often seen as harbingers of environmental change, their migratory patterns and breeding habits subtly reflecting shifts in the world around them. For years, scientists have observed that ...

A grasshopper sparrow perches on a barbed wire fence, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in Denton, Neb. North America's grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after adoption of the Endangered ...

North America’s grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after adoption of the Endangered Species Act, with numbers plunging as habitat loss, land degradation and climate change threaten ...

A grasshopper sparrow perches on a barbed wire fence, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in Denton, Neb. North America's grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after the adoption of the Endangered ...

North American grassland birds in peril, spurring all-out effort to save them and their habitat. By The Associated Press. Published: Aug. 25, 2023 at 12:25 PM CDT | Updated: Aug. 25, 2023 at 12:31 ...