New York Post29d
Long Island farm hatches thousands of new chicks after culling nearly 100K due to avian flu
Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue welcomed 3,700 new chicks just over a month after farm operators were forced to cull 99,000 ducks when an outbreak of H1N5 — bird flu — spread across the ...
University of Colorado Boulder10d
Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...
Shelter Island Reporter1d
Keeping chickens and being careful: Backyard flocks and the dangers from bird flu
Ben Smith is one of the few Islanders who isn’t concerned about the price of eggs. The issue of egg prices dominated the ...
Crescent Duck Farm owner: USDA lifts 10-KM quarantine after bird-flu outbreak
Doug Corwin, president of Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, in an interview Thursday said the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently notified him it had lifted one quarantine on live poultry in a ...
Several Duck Species Included in ‘Tipping Point List’ as New Report Sounds Alarm Over U.S. Bird Declines
State of the Birds Report highlights the urgent need for conservation as North American bird populations continue to fall.