That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

Nonstop flights direct from Iowa to Venezuela are rare, unless you happen to be a well-fed pectoral sandpiper. If it finds ...

Florida’s warm climate makes it a haven for nonnative Muscovy ducks and Egyptian geese, not to mention feral chickens. As ...

New Zealand has so far avoided the strain of avian influenza causing mass mortalities of wild birds and mammals around the ...

From the glacial fjords of Chilean Patagonia to the beaches and mountains of Baja California, Hispanic America, representing ...

The authors have undertaken a useful study to update an existing niche model of highly pathogenic avian influenza. However, there are issues regarding the conceptualisation of the ecological niche of ...

For the first time in South Bengal, two rare birds—a Common Merganser from North America and a West Himalayan Bush Warbler— ...

People in northern climates are familiar with flocks of birds flying south in the winter, but why do they do it, and why ...

Researchers are reporting mass die offs of wild birds and sea mammals due to bird flu. They're tracking the deaths to better understand the virus and how it might create a greater threat to humans.

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...