it’s not a favorite of many of the more desirable bird species that backyard birders hope to attract, such as chickadees, nuthatches, and grosbeaks. In many big-box store birdseed blends, millet is ...

I spend too many hours now in my backyard drawing birds ... ways that other people can enjoy birds. Bird feeders can be very expensive. Some that are store bought are $80. Not everyone can ...

When Vancouver resident James Lanz and his wife, Kate Ketcham, moved into their Cascade Park home nearly seven years ago, one of the first tasks they wanted to tackle was the landscaping. Grass covere ...

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 ...

Starting Nov. 1 and running through April 30, 2025, Lancaster County residents of all ages and observation skills can join ...

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

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 ...

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.

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, ...

She didn’t want the birds, which she’d raised in her Maryland backyard, to suffer ... holding up meat that wouldn’t look out ...