It held together as snow built up inside the bowl, and we often saw chickadees “bathing” in the snow-bowl, much as birds in ...

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Through the voices of 77 Angelenos, this story pays tribute to a selection of the thousands of structures that were lost or ...

A new CDC report shows an outbreak of bird flu among U.S. dairy and poultry workers, renewing concerns among dogwalkers and hikers in Massachusetts about how safe it is to be outdoors.

Since all birds need water, bird baths will draw a larger diversity of birds than seed feeders, says Becca Rodomsky-Bish, project leader at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Access to water is ...

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...

The CDC issues an advisory recommending that hospitalized patients who have tested positive for influenza be tested for bird flu. Shares of vaccine-related stocks are on watch as previous bird flu ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

"I'm gonna say it was my grandfather's idea ... It produced a million ducks a year, until two weeks ago, when bird flu shut the farm down. Corwin said, "I saw a flock one day that was great ...

Bird flu continues to spread across the country, with the virus wiping out wild bird populations and devastating poultry farms. This week, dairy cattle in the U.S. tested positive for a strain of ...

While there is a nonzero chance, it is highly unlikely that a pigeon you encounter will be infected with the virus and even less likely that a human will contract bird flu from it.