SALT LAKE CITY— The Center for Biological Diversity, leading a diverse coalition of scientists and conservation groups, filed a legal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking ...

Rare the rest of the year, the Wilson’s phalarope, known for unusual behavior, can appear suddenly in large numbers on the Orange County coast during the summer season. Experts can tell them apart by ...

Hundreds of migrating bird species depend on the imperiled Great Salt Lake for survival each year. A petition has called on the federal government to protect at least one of them from extinction.

SALT LAKE CITY— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Wilson’s phalaropes — migratory shorebirds that rely on saline lakes in the American West — will advance to the next stage of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An endangered species listing for the Wilson's phalarope may be just the beginning in an effort by environmental groups to get federal intervention to reverse the Great Salt Lake's ...

Anyone who reads this newspaper is aware of the crisis we face with our drying and dying Great Salt Lake. But you might be less familiar with one of the most immediate consequences if the ecological ...

The other day we got wind of a rare bird occurrence near our Arizona winter home. We went to the nearby artificial wetland and, sure enough, there was a minute red phalarope swimming among the ducks, ...