Every year, tens of thousands of land birds make a long flight across Bass Strait – the stretch of water separating Tasmania ...

Cook would drive west to San Francisco, where he and his wife, Donna, lived the other half of the year. Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said.

An animal sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., is under quarantine after a bird flu outbreak killed 20 big cats at the facility over the past month. The Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington called the ...

Highlights from the Cape Cod Christmas Bird Count, spanning Harwich to North Eastham, included a painted bunting and a sedge wren in Eastham, a Manx shearwater off Brewster, a yellow warbler and a ...

Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a ...

Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a viral infection that can cause flu in birds and sometimes spread to mammals, including humans. Migrating waterfowl (wild ducks, geese, and storks) are ...

Fourteen orange-headed bird species are showcased for their vibrant plumage and unique characteristics. These birds, found across various continents, utilize their orange coloration for mating ...

As bird flu infections rise in dairy cattle and chickens, human cases are ticking up too, leaving many people to wonder whether they might be at risk from this recently arrived virus. Bird flu ...

As the bird flu situation develops in the U.S., scientists told Newsweek the virus could become a pandemic--depending on what happens next. Right now, California is the epicenter of the outbreak ...

But it wasn't officially America's national bird until this week. On Christmas Eve, President Biden signed some 50 bills into law — including one that amends the U.S. Code to give the bald eagle ...

He noted that avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been reported in 108 countries and territories over five continents in the last three years. “And as of December 2024, the ...

For a couple of weeks, there has been a mystery bird in Provincetown. This tiny, unidentified visitor is a hummingbird, one of those lost ones that show up here on the Cape in winter for some reason.