The H7N9 virus appears under control in China largely through restrictions at bird markets, but it caused some $6.5 billion in losses, United Nations experts said Tuesday. The virus infected at least 130 ... Read more
Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, Colo. — An electric whir filled the air of this high desert valley as Jeff Sloan, a cartographer for the United States Geological Survey, hurled a small ... Read more
Q. Does bird mating ever cross the species line? A. “Many birds occasionally mate with members of other bird species, producing hybrid offspring,” said Irby J. Lovette, director of the ... Read more
HONG KONG — Of all the mysteries surrounding the emergence of a new and deadly strain of avian influenza around Shanghai, one of the biggest is why China’s hundreds of medical and veterinary labs ... Read more
First, paleontologists spread the word that modern birds are actually living dinosaurs. Then came the news from China that some dinosaurs and related reptiles long ago seemed to be marvelous four-winged ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The day after a frigid, star-salted night spent tromping through the Alexandria woods with David Johnson of the Global Owl Project, and listening to the stridently mournful cries of wild ... Read more
BOOK “Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love.” By Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman. Oxford University Press. 320 pp. $27.95. Like a ... Read more
In the acknowledgments to her unsettling and irresistible book, “The Unfeathered Bird,” Katrina van Grouw pauses in her listing of names to say, “I must assure readers that no birds were ... Read more
HAMILTON, Mont. — The Wild Rose Emu Ranch is a survivor in an unusual business. In 1998, there were some 5,500 farms and ranches across the country raising emus, the gawky, five- to ... Read more
You write, we listen. One of the more gratifying things about being a journalist in the Web era — as opposed to the old print-only days, when letters from readers came in sparingly and well ... Read more