Ranging from simple browns to eye-popping oranges and greens, birds have some of the most unique colors in the animal kingdom ...

The man accused of being behind Melbourne’s most famous bird, which appears on landmarks throughout the city, has found himself caged, at least for now. Jack Gibson-Burrell from Yarraville ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

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 are about 40 million migratory aquatic waterfowl in North America, Osterholm says—which means there are plenty of potential bird-flu hosts, whose poop spreads disease. Read More ...

Artificial food dyes such as Yellow 5 provide no nutritional value, serving solely an aesthetic purpose. According to experts, however, not only do they provide no benefits, but they also have been ...

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 ...

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 deadly Wangary bushfire 20 years ago appears to have been the final nail in the coffin for rare yellow-tailed black cockatoos on the Eyre Peninsula. There are fewer than a dozen birds left alive.

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 ...

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 ...