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Ninety-two years ago, the American Goldfinch became Iowa’s state bird. Today, Iowans are calling for a state horse, fish and ...

(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 ...

However, it all started out very differently. “Look, he is from my diocese,” Cardinal Marcello Semeraro said, pulling a large red binder from a bookshelf. Standing in the narrow hallway ...

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.

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 ...

Ironically, the salt marsh sparrow on the east coast of the U.S. is widely regarded in science as the most promiscuous bird in the entire world ... uncoils and moves upwards as the person's ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States ...

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 ...