A study published in the journal PLOS Pathogens finds that agricultural land use and bird movements are the major factors responsible for outbreaks of West Nile virus in Europe. Human and animal ...

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BONN, Germany -- Disoriented by erratic weather, birds are changing migration habits and routes to adjust to warmer winters, disappearing feeding grounds and shrinking wetlands, a migration expert ...

A recent study examined how tropical weather patterns affect bird migrations, and according to EurekAlert, the results were surprising. A University of Chicago study used new radar technology to ...

The Saltholme antenna, which was funded by the Teesmouth Bird Club, revealed one of the jack snipes had flown from Sweden to ...

Is it the sign of the a-flock-alypse? Scientists are warning that climate change is disrupting bird migration patterns, which could have potentially dire implications for both our feathered friends ...

Fall migration is underway for the birds of North America and, during peak days, hundreds of millions of birds pass overhead under the cover of night. “The earliest migrants are on their way as early ...

Avian flu, according to the World Health Organization, is an infectious viral disease of birds. Most avian influenza viruses do not infect humans; however some, such as A(H5N1) and A(H7N9), have ...

Feathers will fly in the skies over New York City this weekend — as hundreds of thousands of birds pass through the Big Apple on their way south for the winter during a major spike in migration. The ...

We typically don’t see avian influenza until January or February,” says Rebecca Eifert Joniskan, president of the Indiana ...