In February 2024, government veterinarians in the Czech Republic investigating a bird flu outbreak found themselves in the middle of a puzzling case. The highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was ...

Bird flu is now believed to be widespread in Massachusetts and is likely present even in places where there has not been a confirmed positive, state environmental and health officials said Wednesday.

There are about 40 million migratory aquatic waterfowl in North America, Osterholm says—which means there are plenty of potential bird-flu hosts, whose poop spreads disease. Read More ...

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 ...

Thankfully, they weren’t entirely successful. The Purple Bird is a Bonnie “Prince” Billy country record. Oldham gave himself over fully to the Nashville experience, participating in a series ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds ...

The prehistoric origin story of modern birds has always gone something like this: 66 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the Earth, an asteroid between 10 to 15 kilometers wide smacked into what ...

It’s a call heard annually and acutely by bird nerds across the globe, when fans of feathered friends unite to take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count.

A bird flu prevention zone enforcing strict hygiene standards around domesticated birds has been declared for the whole of England. A rising number of cases and risk avian influenza poses to wild ...

Nowhere is this clearer, perhaps, than in the sheer glee he expresses at working on The Purple Bird, his 30th studio album, his 25th under the moniker Bonnie “Prince” Billy and his first with ...

A human case of bird flu has been confirmed in England. The UK Health Security Agency said the person in the West Midlands region caught avian influenza on a farm where “they had close and ...

Staff from DEM’s Division of Agriculture and Forest Environment’s Animal Health Unit humanely euthanized a flock of about 40 birds to minimize their suffering from the infection and prevent ...