The Little Rock Zoo announced this week that it had closed its Tropical Bird House to the public in response to confirmed ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock Zoo officials said they are taking steps to protect their birds from the avian flu. According ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

Extreme heat poses grave threat to tropical birds The notion that bird populations are steeply declining is not new – a 2019 study found bird populations in the US and Canada have dropped by 30% since ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

The purple gallinule, native to the Caribbean, landed in Houlton but was fatally injured by the cold. Several off-course ...

MANAGEMENT AREA, MIDDLE CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA IS A BEAUTIFUL SPOT, BUT NOT EXACTLY A TROPICAL PARADISE. BUT THEN AGAIN, MAYBE IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A VISITOR. WE’RE ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING. THAT ...

To cool down, birds rely on panting, resting in the shade, or reducing activity. During prolonged heatwaves, however, these ...

CLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- A tropical bird was spotted in Pennsylvania for the first time. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said a limpkin, which is mostly found in Florida, the Yucatán Peninsula of ...

Gouldian finches, endemic to northern Australia, are among the tropical birds that may be vulnerable to extreme heat. Darren Sutherland via Getty Images A recent study has found that extreme heat ...

The Little Rock Zoo has closed the Tropical Bird House as a precaution after two confirmed cases of avian flu were detected ...