The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service states the purpose of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is to protect and recover imperiled species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. When Congress passed the ...

NEW ORLEANS (CN) — The golden-cheeked warbler, with its bright yellow facial plumage and distinctive black eyelines, can be seen nesting exclusively in central Texas’ woodlands of live oak and Ashe ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Public Policy Foundation intends to continue their plans to sue the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove the Golden-Cheeked warbler from the endangered species list ...

A flashy little Texas songbird that weighs one-third of an ounce is in a David-and-Goliath fight for survival in the Lone Star State. The golden-cheeked warbler is all Texan. It cannot breed and raise ...

This story has been edited to correct the reasoning behind the stance of Fort Hood’s commanding general and add his statement. A migratory songbird that nests only in Central Texas faces too many ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Public Policy Foundation officially filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Department of the Interior Monday to de-list the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A songbird that lives in the Texas Hill Country could soon be removed from the endangered species list. On Friday, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham urged the U.S. Department of ...

Tweeh-tweeh-tweeh-TWEE-sy! Can you hear it? Early March marks the return of the golden-cheeked warbler to the Texas Hill Country. This beautiful neotropical warbler spends its winters in the forests ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is recommending the golden-cheeked warbler, a bird that breeds in Central Texas, be downlisted from “endangered” to “threatened” status. The ...

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Out of the past — and seemingly out of the blue — it came. A petition filed this month seeking to remove the golden-cheeked warbler from the federal government’s endangered species list suddenly ...