Arizona Daily Star

Elegant no more: Rare Southern Arizona bird gets new name

A rare species prized by birders in Southern Arizona has been unceremoniously stripped of its elegance, and at least one local expert isn’t happy about the change. A leading panel of taxonomists ...
Falmouth Packet on MSN

Rare white stork spotted sheltering in Cornwall field

Becks Campbell captured a photo of the bird on the main Helston to Hayle road and shared it with a stork-spotting group on ...

This Remote National Park Is A Birdwatcher's Paradise Where Forests, Mountains, And Rare Wildlife Flourish

On top of its world-class geographic beauty, New Zealand is home to animal species you won't see anywhere else. Head to this ...

Double rare Coastal Bend sightings make Texas a birding hotspot

Since early November, a house crow, a species native to South and Southeast Asia and not to be confused with any U.S. crow or raven, has been making its unusual home in Port Aransas. This is likely ...

A day out in the Death Strip: How a symbol of communist paranoia became a wild paradise

The Cold War border that once split Germany was a tightly guarded “death strip.” Against all odds, it turned into a thriving refuge — and may now hold lessons for European nations urgently seeking new ...

Rare bird habitat on the Texas coast saved from development

A crucial piece of the Texas Gulf Coast's birding paradise has been saved from the threat of beachfront development.
WFMZ-TV

Rare birds may signal shifting migration routes

A vagrant Blackpoll Warbler is seen on Southeast Farallon Island in California. On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly ethereal bird ...
Newsday

A rare-bird sighting in Riverhead sparks an ornithological frenzy

When a bird rarely seen on this continent showed up in Riverhead last month, the reaction was, as might be expected, a little cuckoo. Native to Eurasia, the bird is anything but common here: It ...
WMUR

Rare bird spotted in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

ALL RIGHT, CALLING ALL BIRD ENTHUSIASTS. AND BY THE WAY, I FOUND OUT THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, SO I THINK THEY’LL FIND THIS INTERESTING. A RARE BIRD WAS SEEN TODAY IN SOUTH ...
The Hill

First death reported from rare bird flu strain

The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state Friday. The state’s Department of Health said in a release the resident of ...
USA Today

Washington state resident dies after rare bird flu strain infection

A Washington state resident believed to be the first person to be infected with a rare strain of bird flu has died, state health officials announced. The person — an older adult with underlying health ...
Scientific American

First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know

A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...