In the wild, nearly 12,000 species of birds exist. Humans see them every day, but there are a handful that haven't been recorded in a year or even in over a century. Scientists have updated the ...

Occurrence of a bird only in very few places and altitudinal elevation can also make a bird rare. The essay on Banasura Chilappan, a species of laughing thrushes, tells us that it is found only on a ...

Maximo Napa Castro set off for what should have been a two-week trip on 7 December - but was only found on Wednesday.

Maximo Napa was rescued in his small fishing boat after being spotted by an Ecuadoran vessel off the coast of northern Peru.

Peruvian fisherman Maximo Napa was lost at sea for 95 days after his boat drifted 1,094 km off course due to a storm.