This article is brought to you by Audubon Nature Institute. With its long and colorful beak, black body and white throat, the toco toucan is one of the most recognizable tropical birds in the world.

As winter takes hold, look no further than the National Aviary as the place to trade gloomy weather for tropical splendor. The new season “Seaside Escape” showcases the magnificence of all the ...

These highly social birds, mostly found in the humid evergreen forests throughout the Amazon basin, feature vivid scarlet plumage accented with blue and yellow wing feathers. Keel-billed Toucans are ...

Toto the toco toucan, right bottom, who was initially believed to be a male, is seen with Poko, in this photo provided by the Sapporo Maruyama Zoo. SAPPORO -- A toco toucan believed to be male, kept ...

Extreme heat poses grave threat to tropical birds The notion that bird populations are steeply declining is not new – a 2019 study found bird populations in the US and Canada have dropped by 30% since ...

Whether we are dining, shopping or bird-watching, as humans we have a tendency to be lured by the attraction of eating, buying or seeing something new. And while we may wait for those new things to ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Climate change spells trouble for many tropical birds – especially those living in mountains, coastal forests and relatively small areas – and the damage will be compounded by other ...

There may be less birds for birders to see in the world as the planet warms. Climate change, in combination with deforestation, could send between 100 and 2,500 tropical birds to extinction before the ...

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...