A shorebird known for its sharp, orange bill and beady eyes is making a comeback in North America thanks to a yearslong ...

By Krisztina Fenyo and Krisztina Than HORTOBAGY NATIONAL PARK, Hungary, July 17 (Reuters) - Hungarian authorities have been ...

Squirrel lifespans differ significantly based on species and environmental factors. Wild squirrels often live only a few ...

Lovebirds are unusual not just because of their shameless PDA, but because they choose one mate for life. While more than 90 ...

Tree swallows at a Great Lakes bird observatory are shrinking, a troubling finding that University of Michigan researchers said is tied to crashing insect populations in the region and world. Tree ...

Grammy-winning R&B singer Muni Long is opening up about a recent health scare that led doctors to say she only had a week to live. The singer, whose real name is Priscilla Renea Hamilton, was on tour ...

Muni Long is opening up about a recent health scare where she had to undergo a double lung transplant after doctors told her she had one week to live. Last fall, the Grammy-winning R&B singer was on ...

Authorities were worried about avian influenza coming in from the north, until the virus started moving across the Southern Ocean. Now infected birds have been found in Western Australia. Where else ...

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Live birds at Antonelli Poultry, an old-school meat market on Providence's Federal Hill, have tested positive for avian flu. The infected birds included both live chickens and ducks, and came from out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A kākāpō named Dusky is one of the parrots being monitored during this year's breeding season in New Zealand. The species has made ...

Pigeons that had been injected with a drug to deplete their special liver cells did not find their way home until the sun came out. Christian Ziegler / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Pigeons ...