'Unprecedented': How bird flu became an animal pandemic Ben Wallis Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. Matteo Lervolino Millions of wild birds are estimated to have died from the spread of high pathogenic avian influenza "The moment we found the first evidence of that destructive serial killer virus amidst such a bird-rich, …
Avian biologist Adam Baz with a barn owl named Archie, demonstrating the basics of falconry in a monthly class he offers through the Usal Project. “Then I just was hooked, and haven’t stopped doing it since.” Baz with Jasper, a Harris’s hawk. “I’m paying attention to the traffic, to the people around, the dogs, other hawks and falcons, and then …
A highly infectious bird flu has caused the deaths of 37 million birds in the U.S. via Associated Press PHOENIX — Arizona officials have confirmed the first cases in the Southwest of a bird flu that has led to the deaths of 37 million birds from commercial farms in the central and eastern U.S. Anne Justice-Allen, the department's wildlife veterinarian, …
