With how many species of this familiar waterfowl live in or migrate through the state, you could say Virginia is for duck lovers. From diving ducks to sea ducks to dabbling ducks, over 30 species ...

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, ...

Of all bird species, swifts spend the highest percentage of their life in flight. Sometimes they don’t land for 10 months straight, ... “I’d go with the red-breasted merganser.

Five chicks of the critically endangered Brazilian merganser have been born at the Prague Zoo, fuelling hopes for a reintroduction of the duck in the wild, a breeder said Wednesday.

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/ ...

A red tailed hawk, great horned owl and hooded merganser ducks are among the birds felled by the virus, officials confirmed. Bird flu suspected in deaths across multiple species at Queens and ...

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.

There are two other species of merganser found in New England − common and hooded mergansers. What distinguishes red-breasted mergansers are their shaggy crests, super thin beaks and range.

The bird, a red-breasted merganser, was among 21 birds taken in by the Wisconsin Humane Society's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Milwaukee between Jan. 2 and Feb. 10.

With how many species of this familiar waterfowl live in or migrate through the state, you could say Virginia is for duck lovers. From diving ducks to sea ducks to dabbling ducks, over 30 species o… ...

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.