Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America

Avian flu may have killed millions of birds globally as outbreak ravages South America

Millions of wild birds may have died from bird flu globally in the latest outbreak, researchers have said, as the viral disease ravages South America, with 200,000 deaths recorded in Peru alone. The highly infectious variant of H5N1, which gained momentum in the winter of 2021, caused Europe’s worst bird flu outbreak before spreading globally. […]

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A Visit to a Remote Maine Island Finds Puffins and Terns Are Having a Good Year Despite Climate Change

A Visit to a Remote Maine Island Finds Puffins and Terns Are Having a Good Year Despite Climate Change

The title of supervisory wildlife biologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service does little justice to Linda Welch (pictured above). In practice, she is the housing and unusual development secretary for seabirds on Maine’s Petit Manan Island. This was clear as she led me to nesting areas there for Atlantic puffins. Over the […]

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