The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In the last two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds ...

Discover the brain science behind how birds learn to sing, from song nuclei to social cues and critical learning windows.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials in Arizona this week said nearly a half-dozen animals including a cheetah and a mountain lion at a Phoenix-area zoo died ...

Mark Naniot remembers 2022 as the summer from hell. As the co-founder of Wild Instincts animal rescue in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, Naniot and his team spent the season sweating in gloves, gowns, smocks ...

The number of birds affected by Pennsylvania’s worst avian flu outbreak since the 1980s is close to 8 million. USDA’s Animal ...

Cases of bird flu have been identified at Wildlife World Zoo and five animals have died. Maricopa County health officials say the animals who died "were likely ill from H5N1 avian flu." LITCHFIELD ...

Avian flu is not just for the birds; cases have been reported in the United States in dairy cows, as well as types of cats, a fox, a seal, and most recently, rats and domestic indoor cats, according ...

Famous for stomping venomous snakes, the secretary bird has become a new climate early-warning system for the African grassland.

Spring is approaching in Marin, as evidenced by the sights and smells of beautiful flowers and by the melodic chirping of the ...

Wintering birds, including the celebrated snow geese, return to California winter. The down side is migrating birds can help spread H5N1 bird flu and other diseases among other bird species, animals ...

Across the United States, bird flu is no longer a concern only for dairy and poultry farms — it’s now knocking on the gates of zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, putting some of the nation’s rarest ...

Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the hellbender or the goblin shark? Typically, animals get their names from a ...