SCOTLAND NECK, N.C. (WITN) - A wildlife park in Eastern Carolina has been selected to care for an endangered duck species from Brazil. Sylvan Heights Bird Park is one of only two sanctuaries outside ...

With efforts to save their native habitat in doubt, nine of the world’s most endangered birds, Brazilian mergansers, are currently being looked after at the Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck.

Brazil is an incredibly bird-rich country that supports a huge number of species. The west shares most of the same birds as the east but has only half as many endemics. Indeed, only about 30 are found ...

The great-billed seed finch (Sporophila maximiliani), thought to be the most trafficked endangered bird species in Brazil, has long been coveted in the caged-bird trade, which has caused the local ...