A tropical species of bird was found in a woman's New Bedford backyard after rain pummeled most of Massachusetts all day on Friday. A purple gallinule, a bird species native to tropical and ...

Gouldian finches, endemic to northern Australia, are among the tropical birds that may be vulnerable to extreme heat. Darren Sutherland via Getty Images A recent study has found that extreme heat ...

Tropical bird populations are crashing as temperatures soar. That’s according to a new study that found abundances of tropical birds were 25-38% lower than they would be without human-driven climate ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Bird populations in the tropics have dropped by roughly a third (25-38 percent) since 1980 due to intensifying heat extremes, compared to a world without climate change, with some species having ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A tropical water bird rarely seen in Colorado appears to be taking a summer vacation at a private Boulder County pond, to the delight of hundreds of Front ...