Avian influenza is a respiratory virus that spreads quickly among birds, often through nasal and eye secretions and manure.

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and ... H5 virus-infected animals are at greater risk of infection. Bird flu is most common among dairy and farm workers, hunters, backyard flock owners ...

Using a spotting scope, Bob Riggs often visits the Saltville Well Fields in Saltville, Virginia, to catch a glimpse of some ...

Just before the New Year, I spied a dark black bird hopping under our feeders. I quickly identified it as a male eastern towhee, common along our road, but not near us. The towhee has been making ...

The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has reported an increasing number of sick or dead wild birds throughout the Eastern Shore. This comes after a positive bird flu case was detected in ...

As bird flu continues to spread across the U.S. and Eastern Shore of Maryland, here's a look at how you can keep yourself and ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer ... “The bird flu is widespread in native, wild birds worldwide and can spread to domestic birds and other animals in human care,” the ...

“The affected birds did not live in any of our aviaries where the public share a common space with birds ... These two cranes mark the second and third Virginia cases that have been identified ...

Even when I close my eyes tight and wrinkle my forehead in deep concentration on my early childhood growing up in Memphis and ...

She's a Virginia native but her work has taken her all over the U.S., southern Africa, and Sri Lanka.