As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Creator Gary Larson has used all kinds of animals to make fans laugh in the usually hilarious one-panel comics, with quite a ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

Wildlife professionals and advocates are grappling with an avian influenza outbreak that seems to be growing more virulent ...

Officials urged residents of the Chicago area not to touch -- or let their pets touch -- dead or sick birds as a bird flu ...

When she took her dog out to Oak Street Beach on their morning walk Sunday, Portia Belloc Lowndes came across a scene that was so disturbing, she said, ...

The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu ...

Swans and Canada geese suspected of having highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as H5N1 bird flu, were found dead on D.W. Field Park’s Upper Porter Pond earlier this week, park ...

State Department of Natural Resources personnel who went to the pond found 10 to 12 dead geese and collected ... and it was unclear if the birds died from a pathogen such as highly pathogenic ...

Nearly 100,000 ducks will be killed at Long Island’s last major commercial duck farm after bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has played host ...

The department reminded residents not to touch sick or dead birds, wild or domestic. County health department communicable disease staff are in contact with individuals potentially exposed to the ...