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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Massive birds whose loud wingbeats and rollicking cries resound through tropical rainforests, African hornbills were a common ...

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.

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

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 ...

Cranes are some of the world's most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The wattled crane in South Africa was in decline, but seems to have turned a ...

For millions of years, the African landscape — the rainforests, woodlands, savannas and scrublands — has echoed with the ...