One of life’s great pleasures is basking in the sparkling azure splendour of the Wellington waterfront, on a sunny and calm day. On my recent visit to the Capital, the latter was a particularly ...

(Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been ...

Pitch determines how high or low a sound is — for example, the chirp of a bird versus the growl of a dog. Harmonic structure defines tonal quality, distinguishing a piano note from a frog’s croak.

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 ...

You honestly couldn’t get better backstage access to NZ’s sexual soul ... the Kea and the Kaka to go beak to beak in a bird off. Yeah, they’re all parrots, but they’re really not the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms ...

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.

By Apoorva Mandavilli Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of ...

Antimicrobial resistance is making it harder to treat communicable diseases. Photo / Getty Images In the first of a three-part online only feature, Dionne Christian looks at the infectious ...

The report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, reveals continued widespread declines in American bird populations across all mainland and marine habitats, with ...

US bird populations continue alarming decline 2025 State of the Birds Report calls for urgent conservation action Date: March 13, 2025 Source: Cornell University Summary: The 2025 U. S. State of ...