While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

As I walked along Bolivar Flats, just across from Galveston Island in Texas, I watched flocks of sanderlings forage along the frothy wavefront as it surged and retreated. Nearby, Caspian terns, ...

Two more commercial upland gamebird flocks in Kansas have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

A black bird isn't necessarily a blackbird. It could be a crow, a grackle or a starling. Flocks of black birds are common in fields, on power lines and along roads in the fall. All these black birds ...

Migratory birds can act as vectors for the H5N1 bird flu, like the geese seen here flying over Colt State Park in Bristol, Rhode Island. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current) Animal control ...

At a recent talk at the Foothills Learning Center, one of my birding friends asked a good question. It’s a simple question ...

I’m veering away from gardening this week to discuss an emerging issue concerning backyard flocks of chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese that many people in the area have. The Washington Department of ...

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture confirmed Thursday that a case of HPAI had been found in a flock in Butler County.

HPAI is considered to be low risk for people, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, it ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The late Oxford University biologist William D. Hamilton discussed the advantages of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked ...