Steve Dowlan, a retired natural resource specialist and lifelong birder, has discovered that one bird is deviating from ...

A dead merganser near Oak Street Beach on Feb. 2, 2025. ... As it mutates, the bird flu has seemingly been able to infect other bird species, pets, other kinds of animals and, ...

Officials suspect that highly contagious bird flu is the cause of the illnesses found in the mergansers, a species of diving duck that winters in the Great Lakes region. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/ ...

Several hundred ducks found dead from suspected bird flu along Lake Michigan The largest concentrations of sick mergansers were found Saturday at North Avenue Beach and Oak Street Beach.