Gallinaceous refers to chicken-like birds, including both grouse and wild turkey. “The spruce grouse seems almost tame, unconcerned when it encounters people,” says Something Wild co-host ...

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Anything that goes beyond that, when we go much further back in the evolutionary history of birds, is where the lines get blurred. Exactly when something is sufficiently ‘bird-like’ to be called a ...

At Punta Leon in Argentina, researchers Luciana Gallo, holding the red bucket, and Marcela Uhart take samples from deceased wild animals to test for bird flu. "It's just like wildfire. I mean it ...

The same strain is linked to the bird flu patient who died in Louisiana. A second type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

Dead from bird flu. And it wasn't just elephant seals. There were terns – with their yellow beaks and black heads – stumbling about having seizures on the sand. The scene played out again and again in ...

Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US ... where a feed trough filled with grain can look like a giant birdfeeder. Gene sequencing of these D1.1 viruses has found a mutation that ...

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world, killing 20 million to 100 million people. By 1957, when Hilleman began worrying about the egg supply ...

Check out a preview of the update here. It's now easier than ever to identify a bird you just saw. Enter all you were able to observe—what color was it? How big? What did its tail look like?—and Bird ...