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Georgia’s coast has long served as a rest stop along the Atlantic Flyaway for birds migrating at least a few thousand miles ...
The person contacted Mickaboo, a Bay Area nonprofit founded to rescue and care for pet parrots. Mickaboo volunteers ...
Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...
Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...
The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...
A wildlife nonprofit in the Poconos has confirmed dozens of snow geese in various parts of the Lehigh Valley have tested positive for the bird flu.
In the vast expanse of our planet’s skies, birds have evolved some of the most remarkable adaptations in the animal kingdom. Perhaps none is more astonishing than their ability to sleep while flying—a ...
Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded.
Researcher Alejandro Valenzuela recently found evidence that thrushes, which are small birds with a rich, gamey flavor, were part of everyday Roman fast food culture, not just elite delicacies.
Birds, which evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs some 150 million years ago, are adjusting to the human-dominated world they inhabit. Studies of this behavior suggest that it is now widespread.
Scientists say a tiny brown moth navigates 600 miles using stars — just like humans and birds ...