Some birds are so massive they defy belief, dominating the skies with wingspans that stretch beyond imagination. One soars ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...

Birds of prey are large, predatory birds with sharp talons and hooked bills that are known for their strength, freedom, and ...

Over a dozen ducks and wild birds at the Queens and Bronx zoos have died, likely all due to the avian flu sweeping the ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

Birds have fascinated humans for centuries, with their ability to take to the skies effortlessly. But when it comes to sheer size and wingspan, some birds dominate the skies in ways that seem almost ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Initial signs included increased duck mortality, prompting state officials to quarantine the farm and cull nearly 119,000 birds. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) confirmed the H5N9 ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK ...