What was I feeding my backyard birds? I started doing some research, and lo and behold, I was serving them junk. Now I know: Not all birdseed is created equal. The good stuff? Hard to come by. Beyond ...

Books about backyard bird feeding are plentiful as well. Perhaps better yet, stop by your local birding supply store. Places like Wild Birds Unlimited in Lisle offer guidance along with the ...

The number of workers at a Franklin County commercial egg farm who have now tested positive for avian influenza has increased ...

It’s pretty simple. You look out your window at birdfeeders or just your yard and count birds for as little or as long as you want. A joint research and education project sponsored by Cornell ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture suggests using a disinfectant foot bath with a scrub mat at the entrance of your chicken run or coop. Kari Koulmentas, who keeps most of her chickens ...

Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles, started as a private nature journal of birds in her garden in Sausalito, came to birding as a response to American politics, specifically, ...

The first known case of avian influenza in a pig in the United States was confirmed at a small farm in Central Oregon on ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

The pig was one of five that were found and tested in a backyard farm operation ... virus “out of abundance of caution” after the bird flu was detected among poultry at the farm last week.

She didn’t want the birds, which she’d raised in her Maryland backyard, to suffer. One by one, the four knelt over a white ...

Romania has reported an outbreak of avian influenza among poultry, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn in the deadly disease commonly ...

The virus was detected in a flock of 47 backyard poultry in the eastern village of Mihail Kogalniceanu, causing the death of four birds, the Paris-based WOAH said, citing a report from the ...