New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future migration patterns.

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

We might think that we understand how birds communicate, hunt, and navigate the world, but really, we are filling in the gaps ...

Roger Pasquier explains how birds spend the quiet half of their lives even when they're flying and half their brain is awake ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Initial signs included increased duck mortality, prompting state officials to quarantine the farm and cull nearly 119,000 birds. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) confirmed the H5N9 ...

The current threat is impacted by two factors, the statement explained: avian flu showing up in dairy cattle and changes in migratory bird patterns due to extreme climate events. MORE: What 3rd ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

Ten months on from the shocking discovery that a virus usually carried by wild birds can readily infect cows, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen and one person ...

The reason egg prices are so high is because of the bird flu, not because of Michigan's new cage-free law. (Editor's note: In 2009, the Michigan Legislature passed a law with bipartisan support ...

A bird flu prevention zone enforcing strict hygiene standards around domesticated birds has been declared for the whole of England. A rising number of cases and risk avian influenza poses to wild ...