As you begin to see nests full of baby chicks and fledgling birds hopping around in your backyard, you may wonder: how do ...

Answer: Birds do not have the sex organs common to mammals. Instead, both male and female birds have what's known as a cloaca ...

What a clucking tragedy. Parents in the posh Park Slope neighborhood shelled out more than $2,000 to cover medical bills for one of their kids’ schoolyard chickens — but ...

The Giants named Landen Roupp their fifth starter to begin the season, manager Bob Melvin tells reporters (link via Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area). Hayden Birdsong, who was the remaining ...

A pigeon has created a special bond with the people who saved him. Ashley Hood and her family never expected that rescuing a seemingly sick pigeon would lead to him becoming part of their brood.

Hibernating for up to 5 months, they use sacs lined with blood vessels near their cloaca to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. These blood vessels disperse the oxygen throughout the turtle’s ...

(Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) Bird flu is at a dangerous point in the United States: Nearly 167 million birds have been impacted by the H5N1 strain since 2022, and 70 people have been ...

Pitch determines how high or low a sound is — for example, the chirp of a bird versus the growl of a dog. Harmonic structure defines tonal quality, distinguishing a piano note from a frog’s croak.

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

The ongoing spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an “unprecedented” scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday. Speaking at a conference in Rome, key members of the ...

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Food and agriculture experts from the United Nations issued a warning about a growing bird flu crisis amid widespread poultry infections and spillover into people and animals worldwide.