They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them ...

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.

Independent aviation experts were also casting doubt on the bird strike theory, and pointing to damage seen on the plane's fuselage as evidence of a more nefarious possible explanation.

Scientists are warning the public about bird flu after a patient in Louisiana showed mutations that could increase the transmission of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified mutations in H5N1 bird flu infections — in hospitalized patients in Louisiana and British Columbia — that may ...

Bird flu was confirmed in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds in Vermont last week, officials announced Thursday. The highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as H5N1 bird flu, was ...

The US 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 seen in samples from ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the illness in the United States A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu ...

The death of an Oregon house cat, who became ill after eating raw pet food contaminated with bird flu, recently prompted a nationwide recall. The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) on Thursday ...

Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature. By Benjamin ...

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 ...