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Bird Flu Is Infecting Cats (and the Occasional Dog). Here’s What to Know.
A few “reasonable precautions” can help people keep their pets safe from the H5N1 virus, experts say.
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Why NYC Audubon Changed Its Name
The birding group has rebranded as NYC Bird Alliance because of John James Audubon’s connections to slavery.
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Don’t Let a Bird’s Feathers Fool You
I saw a couple of crows dining on roadkill the other day as I was driving by and wondered, Does…
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The Kiwi Makes a Startling but Careful Comeback
At a sanctuary on New Zealand’s North Island, the long-endangered flightless birds have grown so much in number that they…
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Bird Flu Is Our Fault
We don’t yet know if H5N1 bird flu will spill over from animals to infect a large number of humans.…
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Uncovering What Audubon Missed, and What He Made Up
In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
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Seriously, Now Is the Time to Stop Kissing Sick Birds
A citizen-science collaboration in New York has turned up a half-dozen birds infected with the avian flu virus.
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Do Birds Dream?
What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives.
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With an Orange-Tufted Spiderhunter, Birder Breaks Record for Sightings
In February, Peter Kaestner beat out the competition to document his 10,000th bird species.
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These Birds Are National Symbols but Getting Harder to See
The American tropics are uniquely blessed with birds. Thirty-six percent of the world’s 11,000 bird species live in the region…