Birds

Idaho Matters is featuring a special episode of the “Threatened” podcast from our friends at Bird Note, all about the struggling long-billed curlew.

Spring bird migration is underway and will continue in the Mountain West for the next few months. If you want to help them on that long journey,…

Parts of the Mountain West are still seeing snow and frost and sleet – but there's one sure sign that spring is actually here: the songs of migrating…

A salmonella outbreak is killing songbirds around the West, and it continues to spread.Salmonella is always in the environment, and localized outbreaks…

This interview originally aired Nov. 30, 2020America’s bird population is in decline. Some studies show that as much as 30% of the population across…

In the past few decades, 30% of bird populations have vanished from North America. Audrey Regan tells us how noise and light pollution are partly to blame.

America’s bird population is in decline. Some studies show that as much as 30% of the population across species has been lost. So, what is to blame for…

Over the last decade, scientists have noticed a trend. Out in the field they were seeing more and more dead birds, shot illegally. But previous research…

A study published this week in the journal Science found that the bird population in the U.S. and Canada has fallen by nearly 30%, or 3 billion birds,…

As residents of Nampa deal with thousands of crows turning the town into a scene from a Hitchcock film, a preserve in eastern Idaho is seeing avian…