Well-stocked bird feeders help to supplement birds’ food when it's in short supply. Throughout the winter months, high-fat foods and water are in short supply but even through the spring and summer, a ...

By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine Russian troops in eastern Ukraine have seized at least 10 villages and settlements in roughly as many days, according to a group with ties to the ...

The snowy mint-bush, an out-of-place native plant at Mount Beckworth. Picture contributed Not far from Clunes, Mount Beckworth is a special place for plants and animals, with several species ...

The bird, which roughly measures 12-cm, generally migrates from Eastern Europe to escape the harsh winter there and enjoy the moderate temperatures with abundance of food in South Asia.

But they’re also watching another virus this winter: H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu. U.S. health agencies say that the virus currently poses a low risk to the general public, even though it ...

A Norwich teen almost died after falling ill with a rare form of meningitis after a Friday night out. Sian Alderton, 18, is believed to have caught the life-threatening infection through sharing a ...

Bird flu virus has been found in a batch of raw milk sold in California, and consumers should not drink it, the state Department of Public Health warned Sunday. The agency said that no illnesses ...

Is the same thing happening with bird flu? The thinking being surely there can’t be two pandemics in four years, right? But with all the government/civilian conflict of COVID layered on top of that.

There have been 55 cases of bird flu among humans confirmed in the U.S. so far. As seasonal influenza ramps up, and with bird flu continuing to circulate, some public health experts are worried ...

On the Mammals and Winter Birds of East Florida: with an Examination of Certain Assumed Specific Characters in Bird Faunæ of Eastern North America. By J. A. Allen, Cambridge, U.S.A. 1871.