Opinion: An alarming new study documents the accelerating rate of decline in U.S. bird numbers, writes Gerald Winegrad.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren’t just growing – they are ...

Billions of birds that once filled North American skies have disappeared, and new science shows they are disappearing faster than ever.

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Famous for stomping venomous snakes, the secretary bird has become a new climate early-warning system for the African grassland.

A new study finds North American bird populations keep dropping, and that decline is accelerating for many species.

WASHINGTON — Here at WUSA9 the environment matters to us, and we know that it matters to you too. According to the Smithsonian, up to a billion birds die annually in the U.S. from window collisions.

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Conservation has long depended on measurement. Populations are counted, habitats mapped, trends plotted against baselines ...