Aim: The islands of the south-western Indian Ocean region are home to many endemic bird species, with their closest relatives occurring in Africa and Madagascar, Eurasia, the Sunda Islands, and the ...

Aired (January 12, 2025): Doc Ferds Recio rescues two lost Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats, while Doc Nielsen Donato travels to Puerto Princesa to investigate the mysterious bird striking fear among ...

Smithsonian ecologist Andy Boyce reported the rediscovery and photographed the elusive Bornean subspecies of the Rajah scops owl, Otus brookii brookii, in the mountainous forests of Mount Kinabalu in ...

Bárbara Freitas receives funding from FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. Forever Príncipe Conservation Alliance (from Africa’s Eden), National Geographic Society (Early career grant - ...

Researchers have confirmed the first sighting of a rare owl last seen in Borneo nearly 130 years ago. The rediscovery of the Bornean Rajah scops-owl (Otus brookii brookii) came during a chance ...

Just off Africa’s western coast, there’s a small island known as Príncipe where strange screeches haunt the night. Not many people have heard the noises, which emanate from the old-growth forests on ...