As the atmospheric river brings storms into southeastern Idaho into the New Year’s Day dumping several inches of snow, I ...

Cook would drive west to San Francisco, where he and his wife, Donna, lived the other half of the year. Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said.

In addition, unlike many birds, their eyes face forward, which gives them remarkable depth perception and helps them catch prey at high speeds. Because of these physical traits, pigeons, sparrows and ...

Hawk Tuah Girl became a breakout internet star over the summer, and her viral origin story is all too common in the digital age. It started with one of those man-on-the-street interviews designed ...

A person in Louisiana has the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. Officials determined the patient had exposure ...

Last week a sharp-shinned hawk, which I have named “Sharpie,” made a visit to my backyard. Why, you ask? I think it was looking for an easy meal. The weather was stormy, and a big snow was imminent.

An older person in Louisiana exposed to bird flu from a backyard flock is now hospitalized with a "severe" case of avian influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Health officials on Wednesday confirmed the first known severe illness in the U.S. caused by bird flu, and ...

A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1 bird flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, the first such case in the United States. The agency said ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency due to H5N1, more commonly known as avian influenza or bird flu. The emergency follows an outbreak of the virus among dairy cows in ...

Health officials on Wednesday confirmed the first “severe” case of bird flu in a person in the U.S. The person, who was hospitalized in Louisiana, had been in contact with sick and dead birds ...

The United States has now seen dozens of human bird flu cases this year, all of them mild—until now. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Wednesday that a patient in ...