A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

New Zealand's unique birds are at risk of extinction, like the kiwi. So the country is trying to eradicate the invasive ...

A remarkable fossil in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection reveals that the ancestors of modern flightless birds were capable of flying long distances ...

Birds are some of the most fascinating creatures in the animal kingdom. But what about birds that don’t fly at all? For ...

Forget bungy jumping and Hobbiton, Kiwi country is stocked with some of the world’s most epic public golf courses. From cliffhanging layouts at remote North Island lodges to South Island mountain gems ...

CRITTER OF THE WEEK MERCH IS BACK! That's right, you can proudly show off your favourite endangered critter. Orders close on ...

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple ...

This paper presents the results of an analysis of bill length differences among sympatric congeneric species associations of 46 bird families inhabiting tropical, subtropical, and temperate areas. The ...

Gavage feeding is commonly indicated for anorectic animals or for oral dosing of medications and compounds. This column describes the proper technique for tube feeding in the psittacine bird. Gavage ...

Frenchman Jean-Raymond Thomas reads the names of those who perished, including his wife, baby daughter and two stepchildren, at the 50th memorial for Capitaine Bougainville. Hundreds of students ...

Roy Rogers. side 1: The Kiwi Bird; side 2: The Little White Duck (RCA Victor 20-4664). 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1951. Side 2 was recorded in 1952.