Tag: virus

In December 2016, Patrick Tate, a wildlife biologist with the state of New Hampshire Fish and Game, noticed a fisher (Martes pennanti) breathing heavily under a tree. When he approached...

For over a decade, chickadees, nuthatches and other birds in parts of North America and Europe have been spotted with deformed beaks — overgrown to a point where the birds...

The spread of avian influenza viruses in dabbling ducks has a lot to do with the life cycle of the migrating birds as well as the season, according to a...