You are walking on the beach and suddenly you see a bird plummeting out of the sky into the water. What was that? The Whidbey Audubon Society invites you to register for a four-week class series with ...

Officials say a Travis County game warden and captain game warden responded on December 30 in the afternoon to a public tip about illegal fishing activity on Lady Bird Lake near Barton ... with 9 ...

The underwater world is filled with some pretty incredible creatures, from flying fish to eyeless deep-sea dwellers. But arguably one of the most fascinating ones is the archerfish. This small fish is ...

The eagle population grew in the years that followed, and the birds were removed from the government’s endangered species list in 2007. By 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated ...

The first case of the H5N1 virus, known as bird flu, in the U.S. was reported earlier this month after a patient had been exposed to sick and dead birds. The case was confirmed on December 13 ...

according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There were over 315,000 bald eagles across the contiguous United States in 2019, the agency estimated, four times the population of the bird just a ...

The birds soon follow. Hundreds of thousands of squawking, migrating shorebirds descend on these beaches to gorge themselves on the protein- and fat-rich eggs. Over the course of a week ...

After nearly 250 years of informal recognition, the bald eagle has officially been designated as the national bird of the United States. On Christmas Eve 2024, President Joe Biden signed into law a ...

Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a ...

Yet, astonishingly, it took until Christmas Eve 2024 for the bird to be officially designated as the country ... By 2007, the species was removed from the Endangered Species List, and the US Fish and ...

illegal shooting and insecticides contaminating the bird's food source, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some bald eagles were shot because they were seen as a risk to chickens and ...

In 2020, there were 316,700 bald eagles in the United States, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a four-fold increase over its 2016 report. The bird was once on the endangered ...