The discovery of scores of dead and lethargic birds during a barn inspection in January signalled a devastating blow for Doug Corwin and his family’s commercial duck farm on Long Island. Within ...

AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family’s commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead or lethargic birds during a barn inspection in ...

Crescent Duck Farm, the century-old producer of the iconic Long Island duck, is battling to survive after a bird flu outbreak in its Aquebogue facility. NewsdayTV’s Virginia Huie reports.

Red-breasted merganser ducks come to Chicago for the winter. The bird collision monitors said they're also seeing some H5N1 symptoms cropping up among crows and gulls.

BRAINERD — In 1822 famous ornithologist John James Audubon shot a duck he could not identify. "In form and proportions this bird is very nearly allied to the Mallard," wrote Audubon of the odd ...

France resorted to a mass cull after the highly contagious H5N8 strain of bird flu started spreading among farms in the southwest, the country's main production zone for the duck and goose liver ...

Grassland birds dropped 34 percent, and “tipping point,” or threatened, species plummeted by a whopping 67 percent. More than half of U.S. bird species were in decline, according to the report.

It’s a fowl day on the East End. An outbreak of H5N1 bird flu has struck Long Island’s last remaining duck farm and forced the operators to put down 99,000 birds, according to reports.

Sea birds like long-tailed ducks can be seen on Minnesota's northern waters like Lake Superior in winter. Listen for their distinctive calls, which some describe as a yodel.

E.G. Kingsford (1917) was camping near a wood duck tree nest in Michigan and wrote, “…one morning before sunrise she flew by from the tree to the river with a little duck in her beak… ...

Bird flu devastated this duck farm — now it’s making a comeback Doug Corwin worries he won't be able to weather another outbreak Philip Marcelo Thursday 19 June 2025 11:54 BST 0 Comments ...