Every February, count for as little as 15 minutes in your own backyard to help expand our understanding of birds. The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is a free, fun, and easy event that engages bird ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count – coordinated by Birds Canada, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the National Audubon Society – took place over the Family Day Weekend amid snowy conditions ...

"We were not ever slow this entire year." The virus doesn't commonly infect backyard birds such as sparrows, cardinals and blue jays and many rely on bird feeders during the winter, especially ...

Join us at the Sharon Audubon Center to learn basic bird identification and learn how to participate in the GBBC. Staff will be on hand at the bird feeding window throughout the day helping guests ...

The risk of transmission to humans remains low, but it can happen. As the popularity of keeping backyard and urban chicken flocks grows, health and agriculture experts warn that bird flu can pose a ...

Town council has given its administration the greenlight to once again explore whether or not backyard chickens will be ...

Backyard birds "are just as susceptible to the avian influenza virus" as birds raised in commercial farms, said the commission's Dawn Michalke, a livestock inspector, in a YouTube video the ...

Cornell University hosted the Great Backyard Bird Count on Feb. 14-17, 2025. Participants from around the world, including Monroe County, submitted bird sightings online. Rare sightings in Monroe ...

But this time of the year, you know, the seeds from last year are pretty much gone. And so the birds really are looking around for food, and you can certainly help them out with some backyard feeding.

The Bird in my Backyard follows a window salesman turned hummingbird expert as he documents the secret lives of the hummingbirds that nest in his urban backyard.

Five birds in a backyard poultry flock in Stark County tested positive for bird flu. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed the birds were positive for highly pathogenic avian ...

when and for how long mallard ducks—natural carriers of avian influenza—stop and rest as they migrate can help predict the probability that they will spread bird flu to backyard poultry flocks.