These innovative bird feeders might attract all those chickadees and parrots but experts warn that they don't come without a ...

We have a wonderful winter bird population here in high north Idaho, and a pair of binoculars is almost a must to watch and ...

Tami Gingrich offers insight into a unique winter birding opportunity in Geauga County where horned larks flock to manure ...

The first case of the H5N1 virus, known as bird flu, in the U.S. was reported earlier this month after a patient had been exposed to sick and dead birds. The case was confirmed on December 13 ...

Had it reached these birds, too? McKenzie and Seiler stepped gingerly onto the boggy beach this past spring in boots, gloves and face masks. Their pockets were ... sand for crab eggs with their long ...

Even then, some considered passports to be an “anachronism in the modern world.” But the use of paper passports—which were first digitized as “e-Passports” with NFC chips in 2006—is ...

The bird, with its bright yellow beak, long wingspan and beady eyes, has appeared at the center of “The Great Seal” of the United States since 1782, much to Benjamin Franklin’s ire because ...

Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature. By Benjamin ...

After nearly 250 years of informal recognition, the bald eagle has officially been designated as the national bird of the United States. On Christmas Eve 2024, President Joe Biden signed into law a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of ...

Yet, astonishingly, it took until Christmas Eve 2024 for the bird to be officially designated as the country’s national bird. US President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill that corrected ...

the bald eagle has never legally been recognized as the national bird until now. With its distinctive brown body, white head and yellow beak, the bald eagle grasps an olive branch and arrows in ...