18 of world's rarest birds released to create new wild population in New Zealand
For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...
18 of world's rarest birds released to create wild population in New Zealand
For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...
Newsroom9h
Book of the Week: Andrew Fagan & the watery dead
Just quietly, I also offer dead sailors drinks and occasionally good books over the side when I am at sea. It is a cross ...
Nocturnal basking and deep diving may not be enough to keep crocodiles cool in a warming world
Climate change is pushing crocodiles outside their comfort zone, and there may be a limit to how much their natural cooling ...
Locals fear a fast-tracked sand mining plan will turn Bream Bay’s pristine beaches to mud
A fast-tracked sand mining proposal is dredging up the painful past for local hapū members, who fear their voices will be ...
Moa extinction: Human colonization sealed fate of New Zealand's giants, study shows
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...
The New York Times3d
Bird Flu Suspected in Deaths of Ducks and Wild Birds at N.Y.C. Zoos
Three ducks died of the disease at the Queens ... the Prospect Park Zoo and the New York Aquarium on Coney Island, said that, as a precaution, the organization had recently moved vulnerable ...
Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94
Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving ...
USA Today5d
Hundreds of dead ducks washed ashore near Chicago. Expert says it will likely happen again
Reports of the dead birds first ... And a new strain of avian flu, H5N9, was recently discovered on a duck farm in California that experienced an outbreak of the more common H5N1 flu last fall.
The Island Packet3d
As bird flu circulates around the country, what’s the risk to Hilton Head’s wild birds?
A flock of birds flies over beach goers near Coligny Beach Park on Monday, August 3, 2020 on Hilton Head Island as tropical ... influenza has been present in South Carolina for the past few ...
New York Post4d
Bird flu hits NYC zoos: 3 Queens Zoo birds dead from virus, 12 at Bronx Zoo being tested
as well we the New York Aquarium in Coney Island. A spokeswoman for the society refused to provide any specifics on which species of birds and ducks died. The ducks that died at the Bronx Zoo were ...