A United Nations health agency has called the spread of H5N1 bird flu "unprecedented" and called on world leaders to ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Wildlife biologists don’t believe the avian influenza outbreak is affecting Canada goose numbers, but they are scaling back ...

A unique USDA-inspected chicken processing plant in northeastern Maryland has found a solid niche as an alternative to the ...

“People tend to have an unconscious bias towards male birds, and that’s often because they’re brighter and easier to identify ...

Nearly 400 birds — mostly brown pelicans — were found dead from suspected bird flu in Hatteras, N.C. in late February, an official confirmed to WTKR on Friday.

Jim Scott, the operations manager at Titchwell Marsh RSPB reserve, said birds are likely to mistake the pellets for fish eggs ...

Large-scale efforts to protect the well-camouflaged heron in recent decades have stopped the species' loss altogether.

The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of ...

A new report reveals that more than one-third of all U.S. bird species stand in high or moderate conservation danger.