noting that the total economic output related to bird watching activities is $279 billion, and birding related activities support 1.4 million jobs. "Birds tell us that we have a full-on emergency ...

Mississippi state and federal officials have confirmed an outbreak of a strain of bird flu not reported in the U.S. since 2017, with quarantine and depopulation efforts already underway.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that it plans to spend up to $1 billion in Commodity Credit ... The virus, also known as bird flu or H5N1, has disrupted the work of poultry ...

Once an infection is detected, the flock is put in quarantine and the infected birds are killed. On Feb. 26, US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a $1 billion strategy to curb the ...

Manoj Mani told PTI. The area within the 1-km radius of the epicentre has been declared as an affected zone and birds within the area will be culled, he said. “Additionally, a 10-km radius has ...

The Department of Agriculture plans to increase imports of eggs as part of a $1 billion initiative to address a shortage caused by the bird flu outbreak. The avian flu strain H5N1, first ...

New Delhi: As the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus continues to infect birds in several states, the country’s apex health research body Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has ...

USDA already pays farmers for any birds they must slaughter because of the virus, and roughly $1.2 billion has gone toward those payments. The administration is also in talks to import about 70 ...

The cats were infected with the newer D1.1 strain, which is widespread in wild birds — and has also now appeared in a few cattle herds in Nevada and Arizona. Niman said he believed the two cats ...

Several wetland bird species were sighted and recorded during the Synchronised Wetland Bird Census 2025 that was carried out by the Forest department in different districts in the central region ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. bird populations are experiencing alarming declines due to factors such as habitat loss and climate change, according to a new report identifying 112 species that have ...

A Jan. 30 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) makes a series of claims about bird flu. "Remember they are not killing the ducks, seagulls, eagles and quail," reads text in the post.