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Each band reported by hunters is essential for detecting changes in waterfowl populations and for setting hunting regulations ...
Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...
Steve Dowlan, a retired natural resource specialist and lifelong birder, has discovered that one bird is deviating from ...
I had my first fall migrant in the yard — a male rufous hummingbird. It is amazing how early these guys show up each year. It ...
Border collies, radar systems and weather forecasts work together behind the scenes at airports to prevent bird strikes — ...
It’s the first time a Northern Lapwing has been identified in the western Algerian steppes and is considered a “passing ...
Birds can nest in inconvenient spots like flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets. There are rules against disturbing ...
Did you know that ospreys have stable mates? After migration they return to their nests to breed. In this episode of Smart ...
The birds are in their molting season, which means they lose feathers and thus are temporarily unable to fly. And that has ...
While H5N1 does not have high mortality rates in dairy cows, the infection causes decreases milk production and milk quality, ...
New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.
The CDC ends its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu after recording 70 human cases and one death nationally, even as experts ...