The black-legged kittiwake is a North Atlantic bird. The species has no particular biological business in the northern Bay of Bengal. And yet there they were, off a low sandy island in silt-rich coast ...

When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little ...

High above the vast Pacific Ocean, far from any land, a small migratory bird performs one of the most extraordinary endurance feats known in the natural world. The Bar-tailed godwit, a shorebird ...

Antarctica’s wildlife can be both beautiful and brutal. In this video, a skua targets penguin chicks within a colony. It’s a natural reminder of the harsh survival rules of the Antarctic ecosystem.

A recent study revealed that the arrival of the deadly H5N1 ‘bird flu’ virus has reached Antarctica. Scientists believe it arrived via migratory Antarctic skuas that travel from South America, where a ...

Scientists recently confirmed that a variation of the avian influenza virus is responsible for sea bird deaths in Antarctica. Researchers from Erasmus MC in the Netherlands and the University of ...

Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...

Visitors to Oregon’s small coastal city of Yachats will soon be greeted by signs on U.S. 101 announcing they are entering a Bird City, an officially recognized bird conservation area. Yachats is the ...

Large numbers of dead or dying geese have been found at parks across New Jersey in recent days. No cause was confirmed, but the Monmouth County Park System said in a statement on Tuesday that Avian ...