"Both these wee orphans had been left all alone, their parents nowhere to be found." ...

Five chicks of the critically endangered Brazilian merganser have been born at the Prague Zoo, fueling hopes for a reintroduction of the duck in the wild, a breeder said Wednesday. The two males and ...

Make way for ducklings—a whopping 76 of them. Hobby wildlife photographer Brent Cizek recently captured an incredible scene on Minnesota’s Lake Bemidji: a single female common merganser duck, trailed ...

About one month ago, a wildlife photographer captured a mother duck who had her “hands full” with at least 50 ducklings following behind in Lake Bemidji. And that was just the start of this growing ...

Ask a bird lover if they have heard of the extinct giant moa or its ancient predator, Haast’s eagle, and the answer will likely be yes. The same can’t be said of New Zealand’s extinct, but equally ...

A Chinese Merganser is pictured on Dazhang River in Yongtai, southeast China's Fujian Province, Dec. 6, 2024. The Chinese merganser, nicknamed "living fossils with wings," is sporadically distributed ...