This past March, outbreaks were reported in seven live markets, affecting thousands of birds. Similar conditions exist on Long Island, where factory farms continue to endanger both animals and humans.

As part of a pandemic-fueled surge in interest in Long Island’s outdoors, Fleck is one of many amateur naturalist-photographers who are discovering and documenting the birds that — perhaps ...

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 ...

EAST PATCHOGUE, New York (WABC) -- Officials have confirmed positive cases of bird flu after dozens of dead birds were found on a local beach on Long Island. The birds, including ducks and geese ...

At least 20 Long Island birds found dead on an East Patchogue beach this week are being tested for bird flu. The Department of Environmental Conservation told the Daily News the public “should ...

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 bird fly have ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- 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 ...

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. It can just ...

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 ...

Ann Nightingale of the Rocky Point Bird Observatory, an expert on Island birds, agrees with that assessment. She said there had been only one other previous sighting of a northern bobwhite on the ...

He brought 5,600 objects back from Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... stored and displayed at the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway's capital, and some were given back in 1986 and others ...

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum Returns Artifacts to Chile's Remote Easter Island COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late ...