In his revered 1917 poem “The Wild Swans at Coole,” Irish writer William Butler Yeats describes the fabled birds as brilliant ...

MONROE COUNTY, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) announced a case of avian influenza, commonly referred to as bird flu, in a wild bird in Monroe County earlier this week. The ...

The picturesque “wedding swan” can now be legally shot in California year-round, without a license.

ANN ARBOR, MI — The sad sight of dead swans, geese and ducks met Betsy Sallade-Farina when she woke up Thursday, Feb. 6, on her lake near the county line between Livingston and Washtenaw counties.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (WWTI) — Bird flu is on the rise in New York. On April 20, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) confirmed that the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus, or Bird Flu, has ...

China reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in wild swans in northern Shanxi province, the agriculture ministry said late on Thursday.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran on Tuesday said 135 wild swans died of bird flu in marshlands near the Caspian Sea in the country's first case of the spreading virus, and officials in Germany and Austria said ...

Two cases of H5N8 bird flu have been confirmed in wild swans in the central Dutch province of Utrecht, Dutch authorities said Wednesday.

VISITORS to one of Cork’s most iconic nature sites have been warned not to touch sick or dead wild birds at the popular Lough Wildlife sanctuary following an outbreak of avian influenza. Cork City ...