A desert specialist, this golden-winged woodpecker brings life to saguaro forests across the American Southwest. The Gilded Flicker is a medium-sized woodpecker with distinctive brown and yellow ...

You'll be amazed by the ways desert birds survive and thrive in dry country. Learn about the bird species that live in ...

A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly tested 150 ...

It might be Valentine’s Day – but this weekend is for more than just love birds. The Great Backyard Bird Count is back. Between Feb. 14 and 17, the event invites nature enthusiasts around ...

One of the last remaining Gilded Age mansions in New York City is for sale for $49.9 million. The 16,000-square-foot home — the only fully restored Stanford White-designed mansion on Fifth ...

Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873, gave the period from the late 19 th to early 20 th century its most lasting metaphor ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? All this raises the question: If bird flu is killing animals right and left, and has killed at least one human, should we be worried?

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

We live in a lopsided world. Even those who can afford the modest luxury of reading op-eds in English papers in a country like Pakistan know that a vast majority of citizens in their own country ...