CITES CoP20 concluded last Friday in the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It delivered landmark outcomes for international bird trade and conservation affecting songbirds, African hornbills and ...

Raptors, storks, and a myriad of songbirds drift across the air between Sicily and Calabria, divided only by a narrow strip of sea. For millions of migratory birds, this small passage is more than ...

This International Vulture Awareness Day, we celebrate these vital birds, our ongoing efforts to conserve them and identify the work that still needs to be done for the world’s most efficient ...

Every spring and autumn, millions of birds cross the Strait of Messina, a narrow channel between Sicily and mainland Italy that forms one of Europe’s most important migration bottlenecks. Share This ...

As Southern Europe faces increasingly destructive wildfires [1], a new paper by WWF and BirdLife Europe calls on European governments to shift from reactive firefighting to a proactive and integrated ...

The Arabian Peninsula’s coastal wetlands support thousands of species. These wetlands are lifelines for biodiversity, providing sanctuary to over 330 migratory bird species that navigate the ...

Wetlands are lifelines for birds, people and the planet we share. As the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands COP15 opens in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, we are championing the places and communities working to ...

This week, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee expressed serious concerns about the continued conservation issues and the steady decline in wintering waterbird populations in Doñana National Park, ...

A new study co-authored by BirdLife’s Chief Scientist Dr Stuart Butchart and published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals the fortunes of Critically Endangered species, the threats facing them and ...

To celebrate World Seabird Day, we want to highlight the 17 types of seabirds that the 365 species are grouped into, from the huge albatrosses down to small storm-petrels.

The publication of AviList means that for the first time ever, we have a unified global checklist of the species of bird found on planet Earth. The publication of AviList today means that, for the ...

United at Global Birdfair! The world's largest annual celebration of birds, generating huge support for bird conservation, took place at Rutland Water, UK, from the 11th - 13th July 2025. Share This ...