From long and winding migration flights to intricate songs and clever tool use, many bird behaviors are known to be ...

Birds and humans have different types of receptors in their respiratory tract that flu viruses attach to, like a lock ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

Ornithologist Ana Gonzalez studies migration patterns and works with local scientists to protect threatened birds.

Sy Montgomery offers a chicken's-eye view of how sensitive chickens are and how they can recognize 100 other chickens, ...

There’s millions of invasive snakes on this tiny island, where they were accidentally introduced during World War II. Since ...

Giant 'dinosaur' pigeon has New Yorkers in a flutter Visitors are flocking to New York City's famed High Line to see its ...

Every fall nearly 4 billion birds migrate from their northern breeding grounds south for the winter, and many of these birds ...

At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak in poultry on a backyard farm in central Oregon. While the infection appears limited to one farm so far, the discovery has raised new alarm ...

Parrots are unique among birds in how they produce the pigmentation that makes their vibrant feathering. It turns out a ...

A pig infected with bird flu in Oregon has raised concerns about the virus’s potential to threaten humans, but the current ...

Less than four kilometres of water separates Saibai Island in the Torres Strait from Australia's northern neighbour, Papua New Guinea. Most days, fishermen and villagers from the Papua New Guinean ...