But what has been the toll on wild birds? More than 170 species of North American wild birds – including ducks, geese, gulls, owls, eagles and others – have been infected with bird flu.

H5N1 avian influenza struck more than 400,000 birds in Missouri, making it the second-highest state for affected flocks at ...

Juhu resident Saloni Tirodkar feels a sharp pang every time she steps out on her terrace or looks through the window of her ...

Some birds don’t even build a nest, and the places where they do build them can vary. For this month’s Chirp Chat, Lake Effect’s Xcaret Nuñez spoke with Holly Walz, a park naturalist with ...

Some of the most colorful parts of the English language are the many beloved sayings and popular adages that have emerged ...

“It's estimated that three billion North American birds have been lost since 1970 from the combined effect of these threats,” Eckles says. Joanna Eckles is the Bird City Network Coordinator at ...

Apr. 4, 2025 — Low vaccination rates for influenza viruses and the lack of an HSV vaccine underscore the need for a new approach to reduce viral transmission. Researchers have now used a ...

Using ultraviolet (UV) light, the team discovered that the birds not only glow under blue wavelengths but also fluoresce strongly under UV exposure. This effect was mainly observed on male plumage ...

For 15 years, Kuhlow, a 51-year-old former Stony Brook microbiology researcher, has been logging observations of leaf and bud appearances — in his own garden, or farther afield on a hike — into a ...

Importantly, the effect of living on a roadside territory ... allows them to adapt and adjust the features of their songs. Finally, the birds increased the minimum frequencies of their songs ...

Julie Zickefoose, a nature book author, presented at the Newton Conservators webinar on Thursday, and discussed songbirds.

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird ...