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A reddish snowy owl in Huron County has drawn national attention, and now appears to be returning back to "normal." ...

Purple martins are returning from South America. The first "scouts" have been spotted in Michigan. What to know.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency said Tuesday that multiple factors are driving the decline in Taiwan’s egg production, including cold weather, molting, and unforeseen incidents such as ...

Also the red-winged blackbird and the common grackle. Cornell University's Bird lab hosts a BirdCast Migration Dashboard that gives daily summaries of radar-based nocturnal bird migration.

Here’s how it works. We’ve gone to great lengths to test the best bird-feeder cameras. To help you find the best solution for watching and tracking the winged creatures that visit your garden ...

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the region’s birds. It’s part of a broader scientific effort to understand the ...

A microscope image of H5N1 avian influenza. Credit: CDC and NIAID Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, ...

Our project is to screen for strains of avian influenza (bird flu) to study how they spread. We focus on certain species of gull with migration paths that overlap here. All of that mixing means ...

In fact, in many bird species, males are the showiest ... suggested that some males can have a rare orange variation while molting, likely due to a diet low in carotenoids, the molecules that ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...