Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and domestic birds in the U.S. to die since it began in 2022, NBC News reported.

People ask me a lot of questions about birds. So let’s clear up some things. • “When do the hummingbirds get here?” They are always here. In the Bay Area, Anna’s hummingbirds are common all year round ...

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Bird flu isn’t just affecting chickens and cows — it’s hitting pet cats. An estimated 11.6 million households in California own 23.3 million cats. A growing number of these and an unknowable ...

The increasing threat of bird flu is becoming too big to ignore as it continues to spread to an unprecedented number of species around the world, affecting egg prices as huge swaths of poultry are ...

Share on Pinterest Though avian influenza (also known as bird flu) mainly spreads among birds and domesticated fowl like chickens, it can spread to mammals, including humans. Tao Xu/Getty Images H5N1 ...

Illustration: Christine Kao/STAT; Photos: Getty, Adobe, AP, CDC and NIAID Ten weeks after government scientists discovered that H5N1 bird flu was sickening dairy cattle in the United States, many of ...