A 3,300-year-old palace mural offers an exquisitely detailed view of several bird species, and presents an artistic mystery. A facsimile painting by Nina de Garis Davies of a 3,300-year-old ...

Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, has gone on high alert after a warning from the UN that the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain could hit North Africa and the Middle East.

The great white pelican was declared a threatened species in 1992. Nearly 40,000 of them pass through Israel, a major bird migratory route linking Africa with Eurasia, twice a year.

The birds painted in the facsimile are rock pigeons, which can still be found year-round in Egypt. (Image credit: Public Domain; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Antiquity Publications Ltd.) ...

It’s the first time a Northern Lapwing has been identified in the western Algerian steppes and is considered a “passing ...

By Tariq Abdalla. Every year more than 1.5 million migratory birds fly over Egypt in their migration journeys. The country is uniquely located along the Rift Valley/Red Sea Flyway -one of the most ...

The African sacred ibis went extinct in Egypt around 1850. But today, the bird’s sister species, the Australian white ibis (classified as the same species until the 1990s), roams freely across ...