There’s something so spring-like about hearing the birds singing in the garden, and I love watching them squabble over the best bird food at the birdfeeder, too. I’m not alone – more than 610,000 ...

A hoopoe bird, a non-native species notable for its distinctive crown of feathers, has been spotted in Kilkenny. Freelance ornithologist Eric Dempsey brought the presence of the bird to the attention ...

With thanks to funding from St Canice’s Credit Union, SOS Kilkenny has established Kilkenny’s first 'dementia café' – The Lighthouse Café. The Lighthouse Café is a welcoming, once monthly meeting for ...

On Tuesday gardaí seized cocaine valued at more than €10 million when they stopped a truck on the M9 in Co Kilkenny. Intelligence led to the truck being stopped and finding no drugs in their ...

While bird feeders are common in Britain's gardens, bird baths are less so. Bird baths are a brilliant way of providing birds with a regular supply of clean water for both drinking and bathing. Bird ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.

Their findings highlight both shared and unique aspects of vocal motor control in the birds. Whereas zebra finches produce rigid, structured songs, budgerigars exhibit a highly flexible vocal ...

A heavy goods vehicle was intercepted on the M9 in County Kilkenny shortly after 10:00 local time and there were searches of two business premises and a residential property in Waterford.

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Food and agriculture experts from the United Nations issued a warning about a growing bird flu crisis amid widespread poultry infections and spillover into people and animals worldwide.