Arizona’s desert birds are in decline, according to a national conservation report tracking long-term bird populations, prompting one conservation group to ask the federal government to take action on ...

Gambel's Quail makes its home in high, dry parts of the Mojave Desert. But like many bird species, it's struggling against the effects of climate change. Chelsea Hofmeier Birds in southern ...

Last year, biologists discovered that bird populations in the Mojave Desert had crashed over the past 100 years. The biologists now have evidence that heat stress is a key cause. Simulations with a ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add the Bendire's thrasher to the endangered species list. The thrasher is a rare desert songbird whose habitat is ...