Cathy Morgan was looking into her Carr’s Landing yard this weekend when she saw a familiar, albeit uncommon, sight.

The pied avocet is a much smaller wading bird than the stork and is found in Europe, Central Asia, and Russia. Its plumage is an attractive black and white, and its bill is not only long but thin ...

Birder’s choice for rarity of the last week was the American avocet found by a visiting birder at Cape Freels. The bird stayed for several days, allowing resident birders to travel from around ...

The first returning bird of the year - in resplendent summer pluamge. This along with 1 avocet, 2 curlew and a handfull of Oystercatcher were the only waders on the vast estuary!! some way to go till ...

In the past 30 days alone, bird flu has been confirmed in 134 commercial and backyard flocks in the US as of Monday, affecting 18.91 million birds, according to the USDA.

Birds breathe in dangerous plastics -- and so do we A study finds high levels of microplastics in bird lungs, raising alarms about the pollution humans inhale daily Date: February 27, 2025 Source: ...

SALT LAKE CITY— Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute is a recipient of a year-long grant from Northrop Grumman.

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

So the places where fresh water is available, such as the lake in Sandgerði, attract a lot of birds. Our project is to screen for strains of avian influenza (bird flu) to study how they spread.

The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.