I learned from my grandmother, who lived on a farm in central Oklahoma, a bird that she called the "wild canary." I accepted her name, as grandmothers never fib. I was old enough to compare and ...

Avian H5N1 took a big leap about four years ago. Previously the virus, first detected in the mid-1990s, would tear through domesticated poultry, killing off flocks in days. It occasionally jumped to ...

Feeding wild birds is a popular hobby globally, but it presents invisible disease risks to the very birds that we are feeding — but there are ways to safeguard their health. Adult male European ...