Wetlands across the Mississippi River basin, vital for hundreds of bird species, have been drastically reduced. The Duck Stamp, established in 1934, has funded the restoration and protection of ...

When wetlands are destroyed, the birds are usually the first to noticeably die off. By the early 1900s, it was clear that draining the swamps, bayous and backwaters of the Mississippi River to ...

How muskrats shape bird-friendly wetlands is the topic of the Lake County Audubon Society meeting at 7 p.m. April 7, at Aspen Drive Library, 701 Aspen Drive in Vernon Hills.

When wetlands are destroyed, the birds are usually the first to noticeably die off. By the early 1900s, it was clear that draining the swamps, bayous and backwaters of the Mississippi River to create ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous ...

The Supreme Court's Sackett v. EPA decision limits federal protection to wetlands directly connected to a "water of the U.S." This change could remove safeguards from more than half of U.S ...

He started building a bird hide and feeding birds in 2016 and quickly became captivated by the avian world and its possibilities. He built his bird hide at the foot of his family's bamboo grove ...

They can even read other birds’ minds. If they end up with surplus food, from theft or from a finding a bonanza of carrion, they will hide gobbets of its around their territory in up to 25 ...

Migratory birds inside the Surajpur wetland in Greater Noida. While Rajasthan has notified 75 wetlands and Goa 25, both Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh have notified one each, the ministry’s data ...

March 24 (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to ...

A sheep infected with bird flu will ring another alarm bell as the virus continues to drift into mammals. It's the first time anywhere in the world that a sheep is known to have been infected.