Adélie penguins have unknowingly documented the changing climate of Antarctica—not in journals or fossils, but through their ...

Hundreds of years ago, Poh said the sounds of different bird species’ voices would loudly fill the air. Though he shared his passion for science, on a more personal note, he added, “It is sad to visit ...

Humorist, author and illustrator Matt Kracht of "A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever" ranks a handful of common ...

The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers ...

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture said Monday that the latest case was detected in a flock in Dawson County in central Nebraska.

If you've been shopping for eggs lately, you're probably aware that prices are rising as the latest bird flu outbreak takes its toll on the nation's chickens.

Archaeologists amassed over 100 sediment samples in Antarctica to trace the history of Adélie penguins 6,000 years into the ...

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and ...

An armed man believed to be traveling from Indiana was shot near the White House by U.S. Secret Service agents after a confrontation early Sunday.

Where does our avian flu epidemic come from? Commercial, large-scale poultry farming and migrating birds squeezed into ...

A cat sits on a rodent bait station in Silver Spring in August 2019. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) You’re reading The ...