Birds are also adapting to urban environments, creating a greater risk of collisions with aircraft. Another factor is that planes are bigger than ever before, meaning birds have to fly further to ...

Dr. Leana Wen said Sunday that the lack of testing for bird flu doesn't mean that the virus isn't alive in humans, and that she feels the federal government "should have learned our lesson from ...

(Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/AFP) Known to be causing cat infections across the United States, the bird flu virus has mutated inside a patient in Louisiana who ...

If you subscribe to the Lefsetz Letter—the email bulletin from music business guru Bob Lefsetz—you will find yourself waiting impatiently, as I do, for its irregular arrival in your inbox. The ...

The bird of brown and white feathers has long represented the United States as a majestic and soaring symbol, but only this week did a law make it official. By Sara Ruberg The bald eagle received ...

The birds soon follow. Hundreds of thousands of squawking, migrating shorebirds descend on these beaches to gorge themselves on the protein- and fat-rich eggs. Over the course of a week ...

Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu among cattle ... But that doesn’t mean symptoms are a breeze, or that the virus can’t cause worse. “It does not look pleasant ...

The bald eagle, with its history as the symbol of the nation going back over 200 years, made a roaring comeback from near extinction to becoming America's official bird this week. President Joe ...

Dec 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not ...

Many naturally assumed that meant it was also the national bird of the U.S. But the bald eagle was never officially designated as such, perhaps due to at least one of the Founding Fathers opposing ...

The White House announced on Christmas Eve President Joe Biden signed a bill officially designating the bald eagle as the national bird. The bill, signed Monday after being passed unanimously by ...

A bald eagle tends to her two eaglets in northern Orange County, California, in March. Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images ...