We examined the occurrence of six species of meadow birds (four wader species and two songbird species) in relation to the distance to the nest location of an avian predator (three species). We ...

While avian influenza has been circulating for decades, intensive farming and virus mutations have seen it spread in novel ways, and scientists have sounded the alarm it's the most likely source of a ...

Is there a connection between bird flu and microRNA, the tiny bits of RNA which have different tasks in regulating genes and producing the body's building blocks? "MicroRNA is quite stable, and ...

Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs, ...

Studies on the impact of climate change on the distributions of bird species in Europe have largely focused on one season at a time, especially concerning summer breeding ranges. We investigated ...

The avian influenza virus needs to mutate to cross the species barrier and to infect and replicate within mammalian cells. Scientists have now deciphered the structure of the avian influenza virus's ...

Congratulations to Will for publishing his first first-author paper in the Journal of Avian Biology! Will's paper describes a region of probable secondary contact between northern house wren ...

A Guide to Ornithology. By Leonard W. Wing. Pp. xi + 539. (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1956.) 6.75 dollars. Recent Studies in Avian Biology Edited by Albert ...

Government officials have confirmed that H5 avian flu has been detected in animals on a farm in Grand Cayman, and immediate coordinated action is being taken to address the situation.  In a ...