On April 3, hundreds of bird watchers — and walkers who happened to be strolling by — gathered in Manhattan’s Bryant Park to get a look, and maybe even some photos, of the elusive American

On a handful of volcanic islands strung between Kyushu and Okinawa, a small olive-green warbler has been singing a song no one recognized as unique. For decades, ornithologists classified the bird as just another population of a common East Asian species.

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year, the virus has ripped through America's dairy herds and ...

What is Bird Flu in Cats? Bird flu, also called H5N1 avian influenza, is a flu virus. It causes severe illness and death in all types of birds, particularly wild birds, ducks, geese, and chickens. Since it was discovered in 1996, the virus has spread to ...

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a highly contagious viral disease of birds caused by the influenza A viruses. It was previously known as “fowl plague” and was recognised as an infectious disease of poultry in Italy as far back as 1878. Although avian ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through ...

Cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s sparking worries about the risk that the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza poses for these feline furballs and their owners. When bird flu viruses infect mammals, the viruses ...

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