Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor ...

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When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

Here's how pioneering women ornithologists, from Florence Merriam Bailey to Helen Hays, revolutionized the study of avian ...

New University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

A new variant of H5N1 bird flu, known as D1.1, has been detected in dairy cattle in Nevada. This marks the first time this strain has been found in cows, showing symptoms like coughing and sneezing.

Scientists had hoped bird-to-cow transmission was rare, but this new case challenges that assumption. “I was kind of under the belief that the bird-to-cow movement was a pretty rare event,” Richard ...

A new type of bird ... Although bird flu viruses usually do not infect people, there have been some cases of human infection, which the CDC calls "rare." This can happen when the virus gets ...