Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

The vultures found in Landa Park are the latest bird flu cases in Texas, following numerous dead ducks found in North Austin.

The same strain is linked to the bird flu patient who died in Louisiana. A second type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife have confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in black vultures at Landa Park in New ...

Bird flu has hit the zoo. Over a dozen ducks and wild birds at the Queens and Bronx zoos have died, likely all due to the avian flu sweeping the country. Three ducks at the Queens Zoo died after ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

The UK has been declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) - and bird "gatherings" have been banned in England and Wales in response to rising cases of bird flu. Strains of the virus have ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...