While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

Backyard bird feeders bring color and movement to a yard, but they also change how wild birds move around your property. If ...

Backyard chickens have shifted from novelty to normal, but the disease pressure around them has shifted too. With highly ...

It’s a fact of life for drivers in the Lehigh Valley and across Pennsylvania that deer are a constant hazard. It’s also a fact of life for deer and other wildlife in the state that getting from one ...

Ask my husband what stresses me out, and he’ll say, “worrying about pets,” and introducing new hens to my chicken coop is no exception. Selecting new birds is always exciting, but transporting and ...

(AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) (Steve Helber, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) The Virginia Cooperative Extension is warning the public about ...

If you don’t have your own backyard flock, you may not believe that the chicken pecking order is real, let alone that it’s even more complicated than we give it credit for. Chickens are one of ...

For the first time, birds in a backyard flock in Wayne County have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...

Birds can often be seen navigating the skies in coordinated clusters. Even a relatively small congregation of 50 or so birds flying in time together can be a pretty spectacular sight. When one ...