Koala and Curlew are unrelated and possibly pregnant females that have become traveling companions, which is unusual for ...

Noticing fewer visits from local bears, a reader asks how Western North Carolina's bears were impacted by Tropical Storm ...

HYDE COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — A commercial layer operation in Hyde County has tested positive for bird flu. This is the first case of the disease in commercial poultry in North Carolina since February ...

Bald eagles were nearly eliminated from much of their native range by the 1960s, but have rebounded. Now, they've been ...

Although Congress made the bald eagle the central figure of the Great Seal of the United States in 1782 and it is on ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker, once endangered, is experiencing a resurgence in Coastal Carolina and the Southeast, thanks to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at a campaign rally for President Joe Biden, Friday, June 28, 2024, in ...

MANTEO, N.C. (WAVY) — A North Carolina team is fighting for the survival of an endangered species in Dare County. The red wolves used to dominate North America before European settlers came in ...

Red-cockaded woodpecker numbers plummeted largely due to habitat loss. But decades of collaborative conservation efforts have ...

Shultz highlights other birds lost to our world, such as the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and the Carolina Parakeet, both now extinct. The U.S. even had a bird resembling a penguin, called the Great ...

In some countries, such as Togo and Ghana, the species is already considered extinct, according to the World Parrot Trust.