In this post we’re going to acquaint ourselves with the heaviest bird capable of flight, namely, the Kori Bustard. The Kori Bustard, also known as the African bustard, is one of Africa’s most striking ...

including 2024’s Birds of Buzin, featuring a Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus). The first stamps Buzin’s art appeared on was the 1984 Garamba Park set from Zaire. The set contains 9 stamps including this ...

The great Indian bustard is critically endangered, but the Indian government has found a clever way of breeding the species ...

The Great Indian Bustard has been listed as 'critically endangered' on the IUCN Red List since 2011. The bird's carcass was brought to the Desert National Park (DNP) office and during the examination, ...

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 ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Now, Crescent Duck Farm is the only one left. It produced a million ducks a year, until two weeks ago, when bird flu shut the farm down. Corwin said, "I saw a flock one day that was great ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — It's difficult to know what birds 'think' when they fly, but scientists in are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists and ...

Birds have many features that distinguish them from other animals alive today, but their earliest ancestors looked noticeably different from the familiar creatures we’ve come to recognise. Although ...