A brightly colored bill can be one of the best clues when identifying birds, and red-beaked species are some of the most ...

Northern Cardinal: Commonly found in North and Central America, these charismatic birds feature beautiful red beaks. Black Oystercatcher: As their name suggests, it is a big black bird with a red beak ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of today’s birds and avian diversity at the end of the Age ...

Scott H. Kozin, M.D. is chief of staff for Shriners Hospital for Children-Philadelphia. Dr. Kozin told OTW, “There are many orthopaedic ailments and injuries that would benefit from these detailed ...

The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording cage, the little gray bird bites my finger with its thick red bill. Ouch!

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...

There has been a decent amount of coverage since the pandemic about California losing residents to other states. There are still millions of new residents to the Golden State. But this net loss ...

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 ...

A human case of bird flu has been confirmed in England. The UK Health Security Agency said the person in the West Midlands region caught avian influenza on a farm where “they had close and ...

The H5N1 Avian influenza is decimating bird populations around the world. More than 136 million birds have been affected in the US since the disease arrived in 2022. More than 5 million egg-laying ...

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 ...

At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK ...