Pelicans are starving. Now we think we know why.
There’s a broken link in the food chain of California’s brown pelicans, adding a sad chapter to one of conservation’s most striking success stories. Emaciated birds are turning up in …
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Wildlife on a Maine Pond: Micro Four Thirds Makes Photographing Baby Birds Safer and Easier
A pair of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) with their goslings May is a time of significant change across much of the northeast. There are newborn baby animals, unusual visitors, and …
Bird flu is bad for poultry and dairy cows. It’s not a dire threat for most of us — yet
Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News Headlines are flying after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows around the country. Tests …
Bird migration over Bay Area peaks in early May: ‘The world in motion’
If the cost of living in the Bay Area has made travel too expensive, Matthew Dodder has another idea for how to experience the sights and sounds of faraway places: bird-watching. …
Peregrine falcon webcam up and running on Alcatraz Island
Move over Al Capone. There’s a new star at Alcatraz. A different type of jail bird. She fast. She’s sleek. And she has four sidekicks. Biologists from the National Park …
How to protect owls in your backyard
By Amy Chillag | CNN Atlanta — The plight of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped New York’s Central Park Zoo last year, showed just how tough it is to …
Remnants of bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, FDA says
By JONEL ALECCIA | AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that samples of pasteurized milk had tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus …
Is our food system built on poop?
Susanne Rust | Los Angeles Times (TNS) If it’s true that you are what you eat, then most beef-eating Americans consist of a smattering of poultry feathers, urine, feces, wood …
Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways
As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the past decade, which decimated the pig farming …
Second reported case of bird flu in a person in the US confirmed
By Carma Hassan and Jen Christensen | CNN A person who worked on a dairy farm and had “direct contact with dairy cattle” tested positive for avian flu in Texas …