Breeding the birds in captivity has not been simple.

New study from the University of Sheffield, IoZ, and UCL found more than one in six bird eggs fail to hatch Hatching failure increases as species decline, so the new research could be used to predict ...

Piping plovers, once hunted for food and hat feathers, rebounded because of regulation but have declined again with habitat loss.

Did you know that birds typically only build nests when they’re expecting babies? We recently shared a video of a bluebird ...

Bird keepers are celebrating the first-ever hatching of one of the ‘world’s deadliest chicks’. In the Cotswolds, Birdland has announced its first-ever successful hatching of a southern cassowary chick ...

Independent scientists say the technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg.

A bill being discussed in the Minnesota Legislature first aimed to ban hatching of all birds within Minnesota schools and now aims to specifically ban the hatching of waterfowl. HF 4655 seeks to ...

Protect nesting birds without disrupting them.

Audubon zookeepers were transporting the three eggs from the National Zoo when these rhea chicks hatched. When zookeeper Carlos Torrez was asked to transport three eggs from an endangered and exotic ...

Forest plot of the mean effect size (hatching failure percentage) estimates and 95% confidence intervals for each factor level for six moderators: threat status, IUCN Red List classification, ...