this long-tailed shrike is found across Africa's savannahs as it perches on tall branches scanning for prey. The Magpie Shrike is a striking bird with a distinctive black and white plumage. Its long, ...

The "butcher bird" strikes fear in small prey with its hooked bill and habit of impaling victims on thorns. The Great Grey Shrike is a medium-sized passerine with a distinctive appearance. It has a ...

An extremely rare bird of prey has been spotted soaring near the New Forest. Keen photographer and Daily Echo Camera Club member John Scamell captured a Hen Harrier flying over Lymington. One of the ...

An extremely rare bird of prey has been spotted soaring near the New Forest. Keen photographer and Daily Echo Camera Club member John Scamell captured a Hen Harrier flying over Lymington.

The Garuda Squad uses birds of prey to take the small aircraft out of the air. Tests so far have been successful, and the program will be expanded in the future. The animals will primarily be used to ...

Few birds inspire awe as often as birds of prey, those athletic aerial predators that rule the roost when it comes to the food chain. People traipse cross-country to see clouds of kites ...

A snapshot of blacktip reef sharks hunting hardyhead silverside fish won the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

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.” ...

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 ...

Since November, more than 15,000 wild birds have died along the shore of the Great Salt Lake from avian influenza (or bird flu), according to state officials.

The elusive yet bold spruce grouse is a little-known N.H. inhabitant that relies on forests that are specifically adapted to ...