A massive group of dead waterfowl that washed up along the southern shores of Lake Michigan near Chicago and ... flu outbreak ...

From Hyde Park to Wilmette, wildlife monitors say they’ve discovered around 300 red-breasted mergansers dead or dying since Friday. The largest clusters were found at North Avenue and Oak Street ...

(CBS) --Indiana wildlife officials were testing ... This week, bird monitors also collected dead ducks on 31st Street Beach in Chicago on Tuesday and Wednesday. "We've been getting hundreds ...

Reports of wild bird deaths continue to mount, and not just in Illinois. Meanwhile, a vaccine for chickens could be on the ...

Red-breasted merganser ducks come to Chicago for the winter ... and federal partners to respond to incidents of deceased wildlife on park grounds. We are aware of the recent mortality event ...

Residents are being asked to avoid an Indiana beach after dozens of dead ducks washed up on shore this ... Similar incidents occurred in Chicago and in suburban Cook County last week, with birds ...

Other duck species and Canada geese also were among the victims. Chicago Bird Collision Monitors ... Contact the DNR Wildlife Switchboard if you see five or more sick or dead birds in one area ...

Officials suspect that highly contagious bird flu is the cause of the illnesses found in the mergansers, a species of diving duck that winters in the Great Lakes region. Chicago Bird Collision ...

Wisconsin wildlife officials have identified the highly contagious avian influenza virus in wild ducks along Lake Michigan.

More than 40 dead ducks were found along the shore at Whihala Beach this week, some frozen into the ice shelf along Lake ...

The bird organization told NBC 5 Chicago that around 200 to 300 infected mergansers were reported between Friday and Sunday. The sight of ducks floating ... bird groups and wildlife lovers.