There is a large family of birds belonging to the blackbird family, but an invasive species often causes confusion.

The virus has been rapidly spreading among birds, wreaking havoc on the poultry industry. A strain has begun circulating among livestock as well. While continuing to stress that the risk to the ...

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

Winter poses several challenges for birds. Scarce food supplies and limited water are just a few obvious challenges for nearly all of them. Extremely cold temperatures, strong winds, driving snow ...

As the 2019–2020 megafires took hold across eastern Australia, many of us reeled at the sight of animals trying and often ...

says the Wild Bird Feeding Institute. They commonly contain various seed combinations. With their high meat-to-shell ratio, "black-oil sunflower seeds attract the greatest number of species," the ...

[Photo/Agencies] SEOUL - The black box of an airplane that crashed in South Korea's southwestern airport late last month stopped recording just a minute after the warning of bird strike ...

A child in San Francisco who had red eyes and a fever had a probable case of H5N1 bird flu, according to the city’s Department of Public Health. The case was caught by routine surveillance.

In the era of bird flu, they say raw milk and raw pet food ... Two of his cats, a 4-year-old black and white kitty named Tuxsie and a 14-year-old tabby named Alexander the Great, died.

We are facing the same uncertainty now with H5N1, the virus commonly known as bird flu. This virus has been decimating bird populations for years, and now a variant is rapidly spreading among ...