A new assessment from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows that a whopping 96 million Americans (3 out of 10 of us) age 16 and older engage in bird-watching. Of that number, 91 million watch the ...

The CDC says bird flu ... Avian Influenza. Georgia's cases were the latter. It causes severe disease and high mortality in infected poultry. GDA issued a news release on Jan. 10 confirming a positive ...

THOMASVILLE- Join the staff at beautiful Pebble Hill Plantation for a morning of birding on Saturday, February 15th at 9 a.m.

In late morning on a bitterly cold day this week, with the outside temperature at 26 degrees, I heard the unmistakable “teakettle, teakettle” song of a Carolina wren from somewhere in my yard in ...

A confirmed case of the bird flu was reported last week ... “In states that are a major poultry producer, like Georgia, backyard flocks are also extremely common, and we’ve seen outbreaks ...

Officials said bird flu has been identified four times in backyard chickens in Georgia. Commercial flocks in 35 other states have reported bird flu since the nationwide outbreak began in 2022.

The CDC says bird ... backyard flock of 13 chickens and ducks located in Clayton County south of Atlanta. This was the third detection of HPAI in a backyard flock and fourth overall detection in ...