Without seabirds returning to terra firma, Polynesian seafarers might never have found the remote Hawaiian Islands.

For now, I choose to be distracted by storm petrels and their curious connection to St. Peter, oceanic storms, and snowfall.

Wildlife experts have said there have been no further signs of a mouse in one of the Isles of Scilly. The Isles of Scilly ...

ANDRE RAINE / U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE A Hawaiian petrel chick, or uau, in its burrow. Earthjustice has filed suit against Maui County over streetlights that disorient endangered and threatened ...

Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Honolulu against Maui County and Hawaiian Electric to change the kind of street lighting on the Valley Isle that allegedly impairs ...

Over the Andes Mountains in Chile, a new species of storm petrel was discovered flying to its breeding grounds. The bird was ...

Under cover of darkness, a new ashy storm petrel parent picks up small prey brought to the ... in August 2009 the agency announced it would not protect the bird, despite science clearly showing its ...

Conservationists have been monitoring the progress of rare Leach's storm petrel chicks on the remote ... is carried out every year and begins when the birds are still only days-old balls of ...

This mysterious, rarely seen petrel is among the ocean's most wide-ranging marine species. Locally known as ‘ua‘u for its haunting, nocturnal call, the bird is an attractive, large, dark gray-brown ...