(HT Photo) While the loss of life of the birds cannot be quantified, scores of them get injured in incidents related to glass-coated kite strings on the festival and only a few lucky ones are able ...

Since 2022, more than 80 domestic cats and other mammals have contracted bird flu across the United States. Oklahoma reported ...

Basant Panchami, which is associated with the lively tradition of kite flying, has unfortunately been marred by the rampant ...

Nine-year-old Pareeksh, who had come to Govind Gaudham on Makar Sankranti to offer fodder to the cows, was taken aback after seeing the injured birds. “Nobody ever told me that kite strings can ...

Animal activists have rescued more than 60 birds injured by kite ‘manja’ in Mumbai as part of a three-day drive during the Makar Sankranti celebrations, a wildlife welfare group representative ...

Kites in the shapes of animals, birds, reptiles, flowers, comic characters and the like attracted many visitors. The stunt kites of Greece could be heard making sounds. “These kites have a fibre ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said the virus poses low risk to the general public. The agency said there have been 67 confirmed cases of bird flu in humans in the U.S ...

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds ...