DENVER — This can be a tough time of year to be a backyard bird. Lush gardens and seed-laden vegetation have withered and blown away, heavy snowfalls (remember that?!) bury any natural sources ...

There are a few things you can do to help these hardy birds when the weather turns cold. Becca Rodomsky-Bish is a project leader of the Great Backyard Bird Count for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Sixty-six of the flocks are commercial flocks, and 49 are backyard flocks. More than 8 million of the affected birds come from California, data show. The rapid spread of the H5N1 bird flu prompted ...

Again, the larger bird was driven from the feeder by the smaller nuthatch. It was time for me to get some pictures ... two hours watching the circus in my backyard. And what about the rare ...

JUST SOME Bird flu has been detected among a flock of birds in a non-commercial backyard in Vermont, authorities said. The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets said samples from the ...

A second case of avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, has been detected in a backyard flock in southwest Louisiana, the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry reported Thursday.

We have ideas. We know it has to do with migratory birds and a lot of other things. But there’s a whole lot of other things we just do not know about. We don’t have control over that.” Judy Krall, a ...

Federal health officials have attributed the deaths of birds in a “backyard flock” in Bossier Parish to the strain of avian influenza that has spread among poultry and livestock farms as well as 61 ...