A wild merganser collected Milwaukee County died from the highly contagious avian flu, the DNR confirmed Friday.

The DNR says the bird had the H5 avian influenza virus. Officials have also received other reports of dead birds, mostly mergansers, along the shoreline in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties. They ...

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

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl.

Duck season had scarcely ended before hunters wailed the blues on social media. "Worst season ever," was the consensus. But ...