Bird Island Coastal Reserve, accessible from Sunset Beach, NC, offers a tranquil natural experience. The reserve features diverse landscapes including beaches, dunes, marshes, and tidal flats. The ...

Birds of Long Island Photography, created in 2012, has 12,400 members. Another Facebook group, Long Island Nature Photography, has attracted more than 5,000 members since its inception just two ...

The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers ...

The DEC has told the public that if you see a dead or sick bird, you should assume it is bird flu. According to Cornell, 37 counties are affected by it statewide so far.

At least 20 ducks, geese and other birds found dead on Long Island beach are being tested for avian flu. The contagious virus is skyrocketing the price of eggs.

Dead ducks, geese and other birds have been found “everywhere” along a Long Island beach — and experts fear they were wiped out by raging bird flu. About 20 birds suspected of bir… ...

Live bird markets in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester will be shut down for a week after seven cases of avian flu in poultry were found at live bird markets in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and ...

But here’s good news: the population at Lambert’s Bay Bird Island is bouncing back. In January 2025, the colony hit a milestone of 45,000 individuals – the highest number in nearly 20 years.

Crescent, Long Island's last remaining duck farm, is now in quarantine and survival mode. "They call it highly pathogenic avian influenza because it is really serious for bird flocks.

Nearly 100,000 ducks will be killed at Long Island’s last major commercial duck farm after bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has played host ...

She said there had been only one other previous sighting of a northern bobwhite on the Island and that was in the Nanaimo area in 2006. “They seem to be escapees, a pet that got away, or from a ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.