To build on his zebra finch study and to expand it to a wild bird species, Dr Slevin chose the Northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, as his study organism. Cardinals are common garden birds in ...
Using a common backyard bird, the Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), a new study provides the first-ever description of how a wild bird's microbiome relates to its ornamentation and body ...
But for the world’s wild birds, the prospect of a deadly, uncontained outbreak is not theoretical. The virus has already decimated avian populations around the globe, with body counts that can ...
Bird flu has killed millions of birds and disrupted milk and poultry production. In California, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in commercial and backyard flocks of poultry ...