Nonstop flights direct from Iowa to Venezuela are rare, unless you happen to be a well-fed pectoral sandpiper. If it finds ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

People in northern climates are familiar with flocks of birds flying south in the winter, but why do they do it, and why ...

Florida’s warm climate makes it a haven for nonnative Muscovy ducks and Egyptian geese, not to mention feral chickens. As ...

New Zealand has so far avoided the strain of avian influenza causing mass mortalities of wild birds and mammals around the world. But geographic isolation was not enough protection for one ...

The Sri Lankan experiment is the first of its kind in South Asia. The research highlights that even highly mobile creatures like birds are affected by forest fragmentation, underscoring that the ...

For the first time in South Bengal, two rare birds—a Common Merganser from North America and a West Himalayan Bush Warbler— ...

As we proceed farther south, they become more and more abundant ... For more on this species, see its entry in the Birds of North America Field Guide.

The city of Port Aransas, Texas is gearing up to celebrate one of North America's most iconic migratory birds later this ...

Avian influenza virus has been confirmed at all of these locations. On a global scale, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus is spreading southwards in wild waterfowl into Central ...