Parrots can live a very long time, some up to 70 years or more. That’s a long time to do the same thing, day in, day out — even if it does have a big cage with a nice view. Fortunately, there are some ...

Conservationists in Europe are trying to figure out how to do that with an endangered bird, the northern bald ibis. Johannes Fritz is one of them. He is a biologist based in Austria. JOHANNES FRITZ: ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with biologist Johannes Fritz, who's currently on a journey to teach northern bald ibises how to migrate for winter. The birds species was previously extinct in central Europe.

Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, a bird species called the northern bald ibis, with its bald red head and long curved beak, was a common sight across Europe and North Africa until it was hunted to ...