Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving ...

Some good news in a recent sea of worry. A colony of one of the UK’s rarest breeding seabirds, devastated by Avian Influenza ...

The UK has been declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) - and bird "gatherings" have been banned in England and Wales in response to rising cases of bird flu. Strains of the virus have ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

Fewer than 40 New Zealand fairy terns survive - making it six times rarer than the kākāpō, which is often treated as the "poster bird" for our most endangered species.

Birds have many features that distinguish them from other animals alive today, but their earliest ancestors looked noticeably different from the familiar creatures we’ve come to recognise. Although ...

One of Ireland's largest and most famous coastal lagoons is so badly polluted that scientists have warned it will take ...

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The Sandwich Tern is a medium-sized seabird with a sleek profile. Its plumage is primarily white, with pale grey upper wings and back. The bird sports a distinctive black crest and a long, slender ...