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The Most Common Birds Found in North America

You often hear about rare birds. People who are involved in conservation spend a lot of time thinking about them, and that’s certainly true for the two of us. We’re big advocates for whooping cranes, ...
Courthouse News Service

Eyes on the sky: Humans to blame for steep decline in common birds

Anna's hummingbird, a common species of hummingbird native to the western coastal regions of North America. (Gates Dupont/Princeton University) (CN) — Geography, habitat and species composition didn’t ...
Science Daily

The five great forests that keep North America’s birds alive

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more than most people realize. New research shows these tropical strongholds ...
Mongabay

North American birds are plummeting in areas where they’re plentiful

A newly published study has found that nearly 75% of bird species in North America are sharply declining across their ranges, and eight in 10 plummeting in the very areas where they’re thought to be ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

State of the Birds report indicates about one-third of U.S. bird species at increased risk

The latest update to a periodic assessment of U.S. birds has once again sent out a distress signal. The 2025 State of the Birds report found 229 species, or approximately one-third of U.S. birds, are ...
Scientific American

Birds Went Silent during the Great North American Eclipse—Here’s What Researchers Discovered

When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in Bloomington, Ind., suddenly fell silent. In the middle of the forest, the only sounds ...