The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, as an ...

We talked to experts about where the science is on risks to humans and how the virus is messing with the food supply.

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

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

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Amateur bird watchers can use the Merlin Bird ID app on their phones to figure out what species are flying around their area. Around 96 million people across the U.S. – or 3 in 10 Americans ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

After a different strain of bird flu was recently found in cattle for the first time, experts reveal what this means in our fight against the virus.

Now it’s in all four flyways,” Dr. Goicoechea reported. As infected wild birds fly over or stop at farms, their droppings can infect livestock. Dr. Goicoechea says birds are beginning to ...

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Suspicions that there may be more bird flu going around undetected were backed by a voluntary serosurvey among ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? All this raises the question: If bird flu is killing animals right and left, and has killed at least one human, should we be worried?