WASHINGTON— Longtime conservation partners the Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon Society took to the courts today to fight once more to protect the endangered Southwestern willow ...

A federal court upheld the southwestern willow flycatcher’s protection under the Endangered Species Act following a lawsuit by the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association. The cattle growers challenged ...

WASHINGTON— A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to strip the Southwestern willow flycatcher of protection under the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit was brought by the extreme private ...

A small, brown-feathered Southwestern willow flycatcher songbird perches on a tree branch. (Pacific Southwest Region USFWS/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protections for a nearly-extinct New Mexican bird were being defended by environmental groups after a New Mexico ranching ...

On February 28, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) denial of a petition filed by the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit after an attempt to change the protective status of the southwestern willow flycatcher. The dismissal means the bird will retain ...

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has $1.3 million to spend in California as part of initiatives to conserve sage grouse and the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. The grants, part of the ...

Wonderful to be home again, home again from a month away! We arrive back on May Day, the beginning of the best birding season here in the Berkshires with migrants streaming in under the cover of ...

Protections were upheld for a rare bird species known to dwell throughout New Mexico, despite lawsuit from the New Mexico agriculture industry in 2021 that was struck down Thursday. The New Mexico ...

Ranchers in New Mexico want the Fish and Wildlife Service to reexamine the federal protections for the bird. A three-judge appellate panel on Monday sorted through the Fish and Wildlife Service’s ...