The Little Rock Zoo announced this week that it had closed its Tropical Bird House to the public in response to confirmed ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

MANAGEMENT AREA, MIDDLE CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA IS A BEAUTIFUL SPOT, BUT NOT EXACTLY A TROPICAL PARADISE. BUT THEN AGAIN, MAYBE IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A VISITOR. WE’RE ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING. THAT ...

The purple gallinule, native to the Caribbean, landed in Houlton but was fatally injured by the cold. Several off-course tropical birds — what are known as vagrants in the ornithology world — ended up ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock Zoo officials said they are taking steps to protect their birds from the avian flu. According ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

CLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- A tropical bird was spotted in Pennsylvania for the first time. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said a limpkin, which is mostly found in Florida, the Yucatán Peninsula of ...

Gouldian finches, endemic to northern Australia, are among the tropical birds that may be vulnerable to extreme heat. Darren Sutherland via Getty Images A recent study has found that extreme heat ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depends on where you live. If you're far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you'll ...

Extreme heat driven by climate change has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38 per cent since the 1950s, scientists have warned. A first-of-its-kind analysis published in the ...

We expect tropical animals to handle a certain degree of heat, but not wild swings in temperature. That seems to be true for tropical ectotherms, or 'cold-blooded' animals such as amphibians, reptiles ...