On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

Birds are vital to ecosystems. Experts sound alarm over concerning trend among the world's migratory birds: 'A noticeable ...

Purple martins are returning from South America. The first "scouts" have been spotted in Michigan. What to know.

Birds are on the move as their annual spring ... deciduous forests and migrate to Central and South America or the Caribbean. These are often shorebirds. Species include many types of warblers ...

A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler ... But the sum of its physical oddities enables the Caribbean flamingo to thrive in salt pans, mudflats, tidal lagoons ...

Nationals of “orange” list countries, meanwhile, including Belarus, Pakistan, Russia, Myanmar, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan, may have their visas “sharply ...

In December 2024, the non-profit international organisation BirdsCaribbean, which aims to conserve Caribbean birds and their regional habitats, raised the alarm over what it called “significant ...

The first sightings, known as "scout" birds, were reported in mid-March ... island hopping across the Caribbean, or Central America and then crossing the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana and Florida.

The study was part of a broader initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to discover the causes of bird extinction in the Caribbean over the last several thousand years. An estimated ...