In the bird-less forests of Guam, however, fruits ripen, fall off of the tree and settle at tree bases without being eaten or moved by birds. Unfortunately, our results do not bode well for the ...

WASHINGTON — Guam’s tropical forests are silent. The rattling, screeching and cawing of the island’s native birds have been erased by the brown tree snake, a devastating predator … ...

While the adventurous journey of nine young wild sihek or Guam kingfishers on Palmyra Atoll has rightly captured our ...

WASHINGTON — Guam’s tropical forests are silent. The rattling, screeching and cawing of the island’s native birds have been erased by the brown tree snake, a devastating predator ...

Ecologists from Rice University and the University of Guam will begin an ambitious four-year study this summer to examine how the loss of birds on Guam may be thinning the island's forests. The ...

Since the U.S. territory is still overrun with brown tree snakes, an invasive species responsible for the bird's extinction in the wild, the Guam kingfisher was released at The Nature Conservancy ...

Nine endangered Guam birds, locally called sihek or Guam kingfisher, made an historic flight from their hatch location at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, to their temporary home on ...

The Guam kingfisher is no longer found in Guam, but thanks to the help of a handful of zoos, ... There's hope for a rare bird that's been extinct in the wild for 40 years.

"The birds we rear and release are not only surviving, but they're also displaying normal social behavior." Researchers ...

The Sihek (Guam kingfisher) was extinct in the wild for 40 years. Now, the rare birds are being reintroduced into the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll thanks to the Sihek Recovery Program.

The Guam kingfisher, or Sihek in CHamoru, is an iconic species of Guam, but can no longer be found there. Pictured here are Hinanao and his mate, Tutuhan, who came from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical ...