Etiket: Birds

The latest outbreak of bird flu is the most serious epidemic in Europe on record, according to health authorities. Over 47.7 million animals have ...

A bottlenose dolphin found dead in a Florida canal this past spring tested positive for a highly virulent strain of bird flu, scientists said on ...

The Wadden Sea, in the Netherlands, is the largest tidal flats system in the world, and a Unesco World Heritage site. But rising sea levels have ...

NASHVILLE — By the calendar and by the thermometer, autumn feels impossibly distant, the figment of a fever dream. Here in Tennessee ...

It is a scene that has played out countless times across the swamps and wetlands of northern Australia: A family of feral pigs went down to the ...

Sheida Soleimani speaks the language of birds, deftly contorting her lips and breath to recite lilting sounds with distinct avian fluency. As far ...

BELMULLET, Ireland — The call of the corncrake — a small, shy bird related to the coot — is harsh and monotonous, yet for older generations it ...

The giant ibis deserves its name. Adults of the largest bird in the ibis family can grow to almost 3.5 feet in length, weigh more than nine ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza strain that has whipped through flocks of domestic poultry and wild birds this year may also be to blame ...

A variety of triggers can kindle wildfires on dry lands: high winds that send power lines careening into each other, stray cigarette butts, even ...

Some years ago, while exploring Bhuj, a small city in Gujarat, India’s westernmost state, I stumbled upon a beautiful and initially enigmatic ...