In the late 1990s, a group of scientists were birdwatching in a remote forest in Ecuador when they heard a call like no other ...

Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally ...

QUITO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Ecuador plans to vaccinate more than two million birds against bird flu to control an outbreak in the Andean nation, the Minister of Agriculture said on Wednesday. The South ...

Ecuador has put in place a plan to try and protect its unique wild bird species on the Galapagos islands from the H5N1 virus also rampaging through Europe and North America. The bird flu virus reached ...

In 1998, a small group of bird-watchers in Ecuador stared intently as a diminutive bird darted along the ground. They soon realized they had discovered a Jocotoco antipitta, which was thought to be ...

Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the city of Anconcito juts out from the western coast of Ecuador into the strong waves. It's a life by the sea, and when one artisanal fisherman set out for his catch ...

Ecuador reported on Tuesday its first case of a human being infected with bird flu, weeks after the globally-spreading disease was detected on poultry farms in the South American country. "The first ...