The Department of Natural Resources confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, was found in a merganser ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

A Flock for the Flu.  Light geese will begin their migration north shortly, and likely will have some form of the H5N1 virus ...

North Carolina Wildlife says the only other confirmed case in wild birds was in Buncombe County. Last month state agriculture ...

The discovery of the duck-billed dinosaur fossils suggests these creatures likely migrated from North America to southern ...

The things that freak people out about Muscovy ducks are the caruncles, sometimes called wattles – the prominent, bright red, ...

For two days every February, teams of outdoorsmen armed with 12-gauge shotguns scour the delta in flat-bottom mud boats and ...

Federal officials say there have been more than a dozen confirmed cases of bird flu in wild birds here in Eastern Carolina. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s database shows 12 cases in Hyde County ...

FREEPORT, Maine — The American Birding Association has named its 2025 bird of the year, and it's a bird Mainers are quite familiar with. This year's winner is the common loon. "Loons are big, they're ...

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume," has died. He was ...

The highly pathogenic avian flu strain is infecting animals and people on dairy and poultry farms, but mortality is rising ...

These viruses usually do not cause disease in wild species ... differs among species virus frequency is variable from year-to-year, month to month, and even week to week How did the high pathogenic ...