Blowing-up birds are bewildering a Bay Area ‘burb. Dozens of birds have met their sudden and violent demise in a California neighborhood in recent months, dropping out of the sky mid-flight and ...

The Swallows Day Parade takes place Saturday, March 24 in San Juan Capistrano, marking the cliff swallows’ annual migration from Goya, Argentina, to the south Orange County town, one of the l… ...

Starlings and wood pigeons pictured sitting on power lines in Kent, United Kingdom, in October 2024. Tim Graham/Getty Images Why It Matters. The bizarre mystery surrounding the birds' deaths has ...

More than 800 migrating birds swooped down a California family’s chimney — and refused to leave their home — in a horrifying scene fit for Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “The Birds ...

Based on the data, insect-eating birds, such as swallows, present a lower risk, while birds that flock near livestock, such as blackbirds and starlings, are more likely to transmit pathogens. Farmers ...

More than 75,000 birds have died after an outbreak of disease in a California wetlands refuge. The Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in the Klamath Basin, near the California-Oregon border, is in ...

“If you’re interested in migratory birds for any reason, California is the place to be,” John Eadie, who teaches conservation biology at the University of California, Davis, told me.