Researchers spent five years studying the gut microbiomes of Northern cardinals, a common backyard songbird known for its vivid red plumage. Their study explores how microbiome diversity impacts the ...

Birds have, for centuries, been captured from the wild to be kept in cages—valued for their looks, songs and ability to imitate sounds. Data compiled by the Convention on International Trade in ...

Ari and Junianto began hunting birds as children in the foothills of Java’s Mount Slamet, near their home in Sambirata village. Trapping birds for the illegal wildlife trade became their main ...

Avian H5N1 took a big leap about four years ago. Previously the virus, first detected in the mid-1990s, would tear through domesticated poultry, killing off flocks in days. It occasionally jumped to ...

West African songbirds are exported in large quantities for the global pet trade (seen in an export facility in Senegal). Courtesy World Parrot Trust Birds have, for centuries, been captured from the ...

WASHINGTON — Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been the ...

Hundreds of dead birds have been found in Michigan since the start of the new year, and early testing points to bird flu as the cause, the Department of Natural Resources said on Tuesday. "So far this ...