When you think of poisonous animals, you don't necessarily think of birds first. Snakes, perhaps. Frogs? Maybe. Heck, even poisonous spiders probably spring to mind before birds — which, it should be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist-in-training on his maiden expedition to the lush rainforests ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several bird species in New Guinea, like the hooded pitohui, variable pitohui, blue-capped ifrita, and rufous shrikethrush, carry ...

Conservationist Bruce Beehler is pushing through a wild and previously unexplored jungle in search of a mysterious and poisonous bird native to... Interviews: Searching for the Poisonous Pitohui ...

In Southeast Asia, the time-honored tradition of keeping songbirds in cages has resulted in an unsustainable trade in wild-caught songbirds and an alarming decline of many species — a phenomenon ...

At the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, veterinarian Priya Patel checks the vitals of one of her patients. He's a red-tailed hawk, and for the moment he's swaddled in a sandy brown towel. When ...