The diversity of rare and amazing wildlife inhabiting the continent of Africa is unparalleled. From arid deserts to dense ...

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If you are a non native animals Africa may seem like a very hard continent to infiltrate. Strangely there are plenty of ...

Powerful gusts shook an observation post perched on a hill at a wind farm in South Africa as two monitors scanned the ...

When the elephants hid from the sun, the focus shifted to 12 species of larks to identify. At sunset, owls materialized. A birdwatcher’s binoculars have little down time in the African bush. Our group ...

The authors concluded that as a group, Africa's diurnal raptors — those active during the day like eagles — "are facing an extinction crisis, with more than two-thirds of the species examined ...

Ornithologists and animal researchers have recently identified and named two new bird species in Tanzania, a laborious task that required the use of museum specimens collected half a century ago.

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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s migratory birds are threatened by changing weather patterns in the center and east of the continent that have depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating ...

MOMBASA, Kenya — Africa’s migratory birds are threatened by changing weather patterns in the center and east of the continent that have depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating drought.

Despite a gloomy and rainy debut Friday morning, hundreds of visitors showed out to the Houston Zoo for the opening of its Birds of the World exhibit. Highlighting birds native to different continents ...