Common murres are clustered together on a cliff ledge in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on July 30, 2019. Annual monitoring of key nesting sites has found that the common murre ...

Alaska is considered the most likely source of entry for the avian flu into the United States. Elizabeth Arnold reports on how scientists there are working with the federal government to check ...

A polar bear in Alaska has reportedly become the first of its kind to die from H5N1 avian influenza. Gerlach explains that although bears typically eat seals and fish, it is possible that the virus ...

Representatives from several Indigenous-led organizations discussed co-management strategies at the Alaska Federation of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Biologists are studying thousands of wild geese, ducks and other migrating birds across Alaska for the presence of avian influenza. Scientists fear the deadly disease found ...

The first migratory birds from Asia are showing up in Alaska, where the federal government is spending millions to detect H5N1, the strain of avian influenza many fear could mutate into a deadly form ...

A small propeller plane struck a flock of birds upon takeoff in Alaska — leaving gruesome and bloody stains across the hull. Mark Schwantes, a big game hunter and commercial fishing captain, was ...

We're hearing about 300 cockatiels - birds that abruptly had no one to care for them. Amber Morris of the Alaska Bird Club was stunned to find what the late bird owner had. AMBER MORRIS: We had never ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Beneath a dim morning sky, Jonathan Runstadler trudged across the ice with a long fiberglass tube, some gardening tools and a smattering of plastic lab bottles. Months earlier, ...

The loss of an estimated 4 million common murres during the marine heatwave known as the “Blob” was the biggest bird die-off in recorded history, and seven or eight years later, the population has not ...