After all of these efforts, they landed on a simple finding: Smaller poops from smaller birds carry very low risk of foodborne pathogens, which were rare in birds overall. If a bird were to become ...

Osterholm says that the primary kind of birds impacted by the flu is migratory waterfowl, like geese and ducks, and these ...

What comes first? The chicken, the egg, or Democrats blaming President Donald Trump for something completely out of his ...

H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Bird droppings, Koh explained, when built up on a solar panel, can block sunlight from reaching the cells. This doesn’t just ...

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

Another late-2024 study found that viral shedding, the expulsion of viral particles, in the air related to transmissibility ...

Wildlife professionals and advocates are grappling with an avian influenza outbreak that seems to be growing more virulent ...

After all of these efforts, they landed on a simple finding: Smaller poops from smaller birds carry very low risk of foodborne pathogens, which were rare in birds overall. If a bird were to become ...

Elaine Power first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school ...

Nearly extinct in the mid-20th century due to over-hunting, a whopping 280,000 Canada geese now live in Michigan.