Yellowhammers, a conspicuous canary yellow farmland bunting, were once a common sight in the Isle of Man. But their numbers dropped drastically in the 1990s and from around 2010 they had become very ...
The UK Health Security Agency has detected a rare case of H5N1 bird flu in a person in central England. Despite acquiring the infection on a farm, the risk to the wider public remains very low.
Back when I was a graduate student studying ecology in Michigan, my ornithology class took a short road trip to Toledo, Ohio to visit the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. My ...
It is the first time in modern times, which began towards the end of the 15th century, that a bird species that was also native to mainland Europe has become extinct.
H5N1 infections are rare in American pets ... When chickens or turkeys catch bird flu, they typically get very ill quickly and affected farms are placed under quarantine by state regulators ...