“People tend to have an unconscious bias towards male birds, and that’s often because they’re brighter and easier to identify,” says lead author Joanna Wu, an ornithologist and ecologist at the ...

Birds without natural immunity that migrate or roost together in large flocks, such as geese, are most likely to die in large numbers. A recent bird flu outbreak among migratory eared grebes in Utah ...

Scientists checked in on species all over the country for the latest State of the Birds report. Nearly everywhere they looked, birds were struggling—including some that have been resilient in ...

In the U.S. 42 species of birds have low and steeply declining populations that put them on the brink of disaster, scientists ...

Where does our avian flu epidemic come from? Commercial, large-scale poultry farming and migrating birds squeezed into ...