In conventional cormorant fishing, a fisherman adjusts the tightness of the rope wound around a cormorant’s throat to prevent the bird from swallowing river fish it has caught, such as sweetfish.

A cormorant lifts off from the water in the Upper Santa Cruz Harbor. Cormorants’ short wings make them incredibly agile swimmers, and they use less energy swimming than when flying. Some cormorants ...

A master diver that plunges into both freshwater and coastal habitats, this adaptable bird can be spotted on every continent except Antarctica. The Great Cormorant is a large waterbird with ...

HEAR BACK. FIREFIGHTERS IN NEW SMYRNA BEACH RESCUED A BIRD STUCK IN A TREE. CHECK OUT THESE IMAGES FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. OFFICIALS SAY THE HERON WAS FOUND IN DISTRESS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN WITH ...

A fisherman was spotted on Jan. 20 throwing a ... Park.Wildlife rehabilitator Amanda Burke arrived at the scene to find the bird with its right wing drooping and bleeding heavily, according ...

A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows. By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form ...

Bird flu risk is low for people and there are no identified New York state human cases, but people should avoid direct contact with wild, sick or dead birds and not consume raw, unpasteurized milk ...

The same strain is linked to the bird flu patient who died in Louisiana. A second type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

So far, 67 human bird flu cases have been confirmed in the U.S., the CDC says. A child in San Francisco was recently confirmed to be the third human case of bird flu in the United States in which ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

Now, Crescent Duck Farm is the only one left. It produced a million ducks a year, until two weeks ago, when bird flu shut the farm down. Corwin said, "I saw a flock one day that was great ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...