According to a new study, an evolutionary shift around 2020 helped the bird flu virus adapt better to wild birds.

A hummingbird’s heart beats over 1,200 times per minute, while the great egret hunts with precision unmatched in shallow ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild ...

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"Birds are important indicator species, because if an ecosystem is broken for birds, it is or soon will be for people too," senior climate scientist Brooke Bateman warns North America’s skies could ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Refuges in Eastern North Carolina provide many opportunities to see expected bird migrants passing through the area. They include ...

Almost 40 years of data reveal that, thanks to climate change, North America’s migratory birds are shrinking whilst their wings are growing longer – effects that may be occurring all around the world ...