The European Commission said on Wednesday it is taking France to the EU Court of Justice after the country ignored repeated warnings over failing to ban bird hunting with nets.

Routine use of illegal ‘lures’ by visiting European hunters who love to shoot migrating birds in the Balkans is pushing some species to the brink – while weak policing allows the crime to continue ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

Until last week, all bird flu in dairy herds had been identified as the B3.13 variant, which was believed to have come from wild birds in late 2023 or early 2024. The USDA confirmed the virus's ...

"We hope to see the results of the dedicated efforts of farmers, landowners, and volunteers when we carry out the next ...

The European Commission said on Wednesday that it has sent the Maltese government a letter of formal notice for failing to comply with a ruling related to the trapping of seven species of ...

Indeed, the French authorities have recently declared to WOAH that the HPAI H5N1 situation in the country’s poultry has been ...

Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...

The green Argentine parrot, also colloquially known as a ‘Chatterbox’, is an invasive species everyone has become familiar ...

A rare bird which does not breed in the UK has been spotted in Oxfordshire. The little stint, known for its small size, fine dark bill, dark legs and quicker movements, was spotted at around 5.30pm ...