Do common grackles deserve their bad reputation? Learn why they're cooler than you think — and why scientists are watching ...

The classic signs of spring have been appearing for weeks across the South and are gradually inching northward.

The tiny flyer stayed for about a week before moving on. Word spread quickly in local bird circles. Photographers showed up. So did a bird bander who identified Carl’s visitor as a rufous ...

The female red-winged blackbird is a host to the female cowbird, which lays its eggs in another bird’s nest. The female red-winged blackbird will usually hatch and raise the young cowbird as her ...

The results came back positive for influenza-A subtype H5N1. Bird flu. With that diagnosis in mind, one of Russo’s colleagues tried to get some bovine samples tested for H5N1, but the lab refused.

Boneyard Beach, located on the northern tip of Big Talbot Island State Park, is a unique beach in Florida known for its large collection of sun and salt bleached driftwood trees. The beach is not ...

* These species may be kept in captivity without a licence, and released into nature for hunting purposes. Amphibians are not considered to be small game. You must obtain a frog hunting licence to ...

The film explores the lives of various bird species in a woodland setting, focusing on their nesting habits, feeding behaviors, and interactions with their young. It highlights the female redstart's ...

Our project is to screen for strains of avian influenza (bird flu) to study how they spread. We focus on certain species of gull with migration paths that overlap here. All of that mixing means ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a $1bn (£792m) plan to help US farmers combat a raging bird flu epidemic that has required them to kill millions of chickens and pushed the ...