While there is a nonzero chance, it is highly unlikely that a pigeon you encounter will be infected with the virus and even less likely that a human will contract bird flu from it.

There are many “daring” trees that have taken root on eroding cliffs and valiantly cling onto the remaining half of the ...

There's a little known law around hedges that could see Brits face fines and even jail time if they don't take heed - and the ...

In the early 1970s, my involvement with St Columba’s psychiatric hospital in Sligo was through our undertaking and car-hire business (and courting a few of the beautiful ladies on ...

Shoots offering smaller days are being inundated with enquiries and Barney Stratton’s Stockton Shoot in Wiltshire is no exception. “I have had so many phone calls from interested teams that I have now ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

The same strain is linked to the bird flu patient who died in Louisiana. A second type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...

Great Backyard Bird Count” asks people to track the birds they see and hear over a few days. The information can help ...

On Feb. 7, New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an order to temporarily close live bird markets after cases of avian influenza, or bird flu, were detected in seven markets in Queens, Brooklyn ...