"This is a beautiful surprise." Experts in shock after rediscovering rare species nearly 200 years after it went missing: ...

The Galápagos Rail has returned after conservationists removed wild cat and rat populations that had driven out the bird ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

The Galápagos rail (Laterallus spilonota), a small, elusive bird once believed extinct on Floreana Island, has been spotted again for the first time since Charles Darwin’s visit in 1835. This ...

These new sightings after 190 years are likely the result of efforts to eradicate invasive species on the island. The Galápagos rail (Laterallus spilonota) is a largely flightless bird and as ...

State of the Birds report identifies 112 "tipping point" species — those that have lost more than half their populations in ...

and the Galápagos rail was thought to have been driven to extinction on the island by invasive species,” the Galápagos Conservation Trust said. “This small terrestrial bird, endemic to ...

three extirpated bird species — Guam kingfisher (sihek), Mariana crow (åga), and Guam rail (ko’ko’) — Mariana fruit bats (fanihi), Mariana eight-spot butterflies (ababang), and several more of Guam’s ...