Migrating birds often drive up numbers of avian influenza among wild birds and sometimes farm animals. Migrating flocks of wild birds can carry avian influenza, also known as the bird flu. That’s why ...
Huge flocks of up to 250,000 starlings fill the dusty sky in preparation for roosting in dense bushes and trees, at Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust's nature reserve in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England ...
Thousands of snow geese migrating across Pennsylvania have authorities working overtime to mitigate the recent outbreak of bird flu and ensure public safety. The state Game Commission on Jan. 2 ...
Each year, as winter approaches, many bird species undertake an exhausting migration, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles long. Birds will fly south to find more temperate climates, which is ...
Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the region will be buried under snow and ice. For the past three months ...
At Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, late winter with the lake frozen and the fields snow-covered is usually the calm before the storm of over 100,000 snow geese migrating through with tens of ...
Snow geese fly above Freezout Lake in Choteau, Montana during their yearly migration north. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Leah Guttman, a Whitefish resident, holds a snow geese feather at Freezout ...
MISSOULA, Mont. — The first handful of light geese were spotted migrating south at Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area this week. Bird counts begin in October. The following update was given by ...
Large numbers of pink-footed geese have been arriving in the north-west of England on their annual migration from Iceland to the UK. They have been spotted in large formations over the skies across ...
As the late-winter snow goose migration through the southeastern part of the state winds down, officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission are feeling as though they dodged a large-caliber avian ...
Twice a year, billions of birds travel hundreds of miles between their winter and summer homes, mostly at night, using the stars to navigate. In Northern Virginia alone, an estimated 100 to 160 ...
At Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, late winter with the lake frozen and the fields snow-covered is usually the calm before the storm of over 100,000 snow geese migrating through with tens of ...