Birds in Great Salt Lake Felled by Cholera by the Thousands
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A recent outbreak of avian cholera was especially potent, killing about 15,000 birds in all.
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A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in nine species of wild birds in Thailand, an official said Tuesday. The discovery comes amid worries that the H5N1 virus could mutate to a form that could spread
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About 120 million origami birds were air-dropped over southern Thailand yesterday in an attempt to quell a Muslim insurgency that has led to the deaths of more than 500 people this year.
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Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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Hundreds of thousands of rotting fish have been found along the shoreline of California's largest lake in a rare winter die-off due to last month's cold snap.  It's unclear how many of the Salton Sea's estimated 200 million fish died, but many were found floating Friday.
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Almost 30 percent of bird populations in North America are facing a &quot;significant decline,&quot; The National Audubon Society said in its first &quot;The State of the Birds&quot; report Tuesday.
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Several common species of North American birds have suffered drastic population declines since the arrival of the West Nile virus eight years ago, leaving rural and suburban areas quieter than they used to be and imposing ecological stresses on a variety of other animals and plants, a new study has...
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SALMON, Idaho  - Officials scrambled on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border.
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Nearly a third of North America&#39;s birds are in significant decline, signaling degrading environmental conditions and leaving some Florida species hard-hit, according to a report released this week.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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When several birds fell ill last year at Auburn University's respected raptor center, experts were shocked and puzzled by the explanation that the culprit was a lethal disease never seen before in birds of prey.
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A small white gull with an ordinary name had bird watchers flocking to the Salton Sea for what they call a "mega-rarity."
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 22--SWAN POINT -- A combination of disease and last week's sudden cold snap might have caused the death of about 50,000 white perch in the Potomac River near this Southern Maryland community, state officials said.
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Birds on the remote island of St Kilda are dying after eating or getting caught up in discarded fishing gear.
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A recent outbreak of avian cholera was especially potent, killing about 15,000 birds.
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By Pisciotta, Marla  About 25,000 turkeys were destroyed in Pendleton County because of "low pathogenically avian influenza H5N2," according to officials.
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A health official disinfects a quail farm where dead birds were found in Thailand&#39;s Suphan Buri Province, 130 km north of Bangkok.