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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There is some unusual activity at Burnaby's Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C., and the group says this year's wildfires may be the cause. Since August, the association has taken in 664 injured ...

When the song pauses in a game of musical chairs, everyone jostles for one of the remaining seats. Bird migration today is much the same. When it’s time for a break in their biannual travels, ...

Birds provide one of the most common ways to encounter nature in cities, but few people wonder how their actions affect birds looking for love. A new study published in the journal Ecology and ...

In 1862, Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was confirmed in 1903 with the discovery of a long-tongued hawkmoth, ...

I looked up on the last day of July at the sound of purple martins, and instead of a swirling flock of feeding birds, I saw a line of the giant swallows flying south toward their winter home, perhaps ...

Since the first avian influenza outbreaks hit the U.S. early this year, health and agriculture experts have struggled to track the virus’s spotty path as it spreads in dairy cow herds and an unknown ...

On May 6, the Forest Survey of India (FSI) reported 82 different forest fires across states with 66 in Uttarakhand alone. These apocalyptic fires are mostly triggered either by human carelessness or ...

Bird strikes with aircraft pose a serious threat to human safety. The problem dates back to the early days of aviation, with the first death of a pilot recorded in 1912 when an aircraft crashed into ...

They were experiencing a pretty high number of mortalities in their flock,” said Erin Robinson, a spokesperson for the Texas ...