When you think of animals that build nests, your mind likely travels to birds. However, while it is true that birds are one ...

What brought a quarter-million birds to the huge, often overlooked lake, and will they return? Answers may lie at their feet.

The humble turkey vulture plays a vital role in keeping the land clean and diseases at bay. It also acts like an avian ...

Conservationists want to save the California condor. Each year, they release a group of the critically endangered birds into ...

Migration already has been heavily altered by building and development and the loss of green spaces along the major migratory ...

Every September, evening temperatures begin to chill, high school football games kick off, pumpkins sprout in farm fields and ...

The mandatory testing comes as the total number of infected herds in California has risen to 17. Nationally, officials have ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer.

Why it matters: California now accounts for all but two of the nation’s recent H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in livestock over the ...

Common coincidences like “thinking of someone and they contact you” or “thinking of a song and hearing it on the radio” are ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...

California Coastal Cleanup Day. The goal is to beautify the environment and reduce trash, which can harm fish, birds, sea lions, dolphins and other wildlife. This year's cleanup day, the 40th ...