The Trump administration has fired thousands of probationary employees from federal agencies. HPR's Maddie Bender reports on the impact to a Hawai’i Island forest and a beloved birdwatching program.

Health officials are hopeful they’re nearing the end of a bird flu outbreak in Newton County. County health department ...

The Case for Living Long: As climate change accelerates, living fast and dying young has its downsides, too. The new study ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of birds migrate through Freezout Lake, making it one of the most breathtaking natural spectacles in Montana.

For falconers who hunt small animals like rabbits and grouse with wild birds of prey, changing Midwest winters are also ...

A quail-size fossil uncovered in China suggests birds evolved millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Birds are breathing in high levels of airborne microplastics into their lungs—and, likely, so are we, with unclear effects on ...

As H5N1 spreads rapidly, wild birds remain at risk. Here’s what to know about the outbreak and how to keep your feathered ...

There is no cure for the disease, which has a high mortality rate among birds but remains a low risk to people, according to the CDC ...

Other countries have seen mass crane die-offs caused by bird flu, from Israel to Japan to Hungary, where an at least 10,000 and possibly 20,000 Eurasian cranes died in the winter of 2023.

CASES of a mystery disease which has killed over 50 people and left hundreds sick in the Congo could rise and spread to the ...