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 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, ...

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.

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.

The red-breasted merganser is a species of diving duck that typically winters in the Great Lakes region “We had a massive reporting of particularly one type of bird, ...

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.

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.