Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been confirmed in multiple parts of our region, and beyond. We're digging into the facts on this flu, and how some farmers in Pennsylvania are trying to keep their ...
The bird world is a fascinating — and strange — place. From a bird with claws on its wings to another bird's ability to recognize human faces, there's a lot of interesting things to know about various ...
If you’ve struggled to find eggs in the grocery store recently, you’ve seen the effects of highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as “bird flu” or H5N1. When chickens get sick with this disease ...
These photographs show how the bird dives into the water with its wings open, and uses transparent eyelids to protect it from the water. A kingfisher about to break the water in a river for its prey.
Bird flu continues to pose a low risk to the general public according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is rare for humans to get bird flu and currently, most cases of bird flu in ...
A respiratory virus that once primarily affected birds and rarely infected humans has undergone a concerning transformation. H5N1, commonly known as bird flu, has established an unprecedented foothold ...
I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...
Multiple Types of Vultures Live in the U.S. Three types of vultures live in the United States—the turkey vulture, black vulture and California condor (which is a vulture bird, despite not having that ...
A male blue-winged warbler. Long-distance bird migration is one of the natural world's most inspiring phenomena-but the story of how we know what we know about bird migration is almost as amazing as ...