An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North ...

The sighting turned out to be a white whale-level discovery. Tucker found a European common cuckoo, a bird never before ...

A European cuckoo, famous as the name and voice behind cuckoo clocks everywhere, was spotted in a New Hampshire cemetery this past weekend. The birds are native to Europe and Asia, and are almost ...

EFSA recommends anyone keeping poultry to enhance surveillance and maintain high biosecurity on these birds. They should also ...

Type A viruses are the most significant for human and animal health, and they are all descended from avian viruses. The flu A ...

New research from the Durham University Biosciences Department and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has revealed that ...

Europe has experienced its worst bird flu crisis ever this year with nearly 50 million poultry culled, and the persistence of the virus over the summer has raised the risk of widespread infections ...

Germany is among the European states to confirm a recent sharp rise in highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks, while additional cases have been recorded widely in commercial poultry across the ...

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) amongst wheat, Ile de France, France. House sparrow populations have been halved throughout Europe in the past 40 years. There are many factors contributing to the ...

Mike Harris describes himself as one of those "sad people" who, having worked an entire career on a cause, continue even after retirement. Since leaving full-time research and teaching, Harris devotes ...

Many familiar birds of the urban environments represent species that were introduced from outside of North America. In Iowa, these include rock pigeon, European starling and house sparrow, which was ...