The Birdchaser

While taking my stroll through the woods and fields at work this morning, a nice dark Merlin came cruising in along the tree line, broke up ...

According to a new paper in the Journal of Virology, H5N1 avian influenza viruses may be widespread in Tree Sparrow populations in Asia. Ju...

Last year for Thanksgiving, I took my kids out to see wild turkeys west of Austin. This year, we're visiting family in Lexington, Virgi...

A new system was announced by the UN Convention on Migratory Species this week, but details so far seem to indicate that it is really just...

On Friday, I took my normal bird walk a little later than usual...but as I got down to the corner of teh corn field, a small flock of blackb...

So for the past month I've been looking to add Brown Creeper to my yard list at work, but these little guys can be hard to find. Yeste...

Migration of land birds has really tapered off at work...morning walk today came up with 25 species, but nothing unusual. A Fox Sparrow was...

According to the BBC , last month's report of a parrot in the UK with H5N1 virus was a mistake. The positive bird flu virus test came f...

I've seen a private report out of Kuwait that the flamingo found there with H5N1 was one of several flamingos being held at a farm, and ...

Birds Korea , the main bird conservation organization in Korea, is a source of interesting commentary on the current bird flu situation in A...

A report to the ProMed email list indicates that the wild duck that tested positive for H5N1 in Italy was carrying a low pathogenic variety...

Senator Lieberman has a proposed bill to create a Global Network for Avian Influenza Surveillance. It was included in the Harkin-Specter a...

CTV.ca Canadian Television is reporting that a wild flamingo found on a Kuwait beach has tested positive for H5N1--the first confirmed case...

The widespread practice of reusing chicken manure as a fertilizer for fish farms , a practice promoted by aquaculturalists, may be responsib...

A New York Times story from yesterday discusses plans to monitor wild birds for avian flu in the United States. We still don't have th...

This morning I went in to work late after accompanying my son on a nursery school field trip to Green Lane Nature Center in Montgomery Count...

The Recombinomics website reviews the latest info on the Canadian H5 avian influenza detections in wild birds, and speculates that H5N1 may...

Dr. Reuven Yosef, Director of the International Birding & Research Centre in Eilat, Israel posted a note yesterday to the Pro-Med emai...

This morning there were 25 species in the woods near my office--including a late Palm Warbler and Eastern Phoebe. The warbler was feeding o...

...to be started in Indonesia after a pigeon tested positive for H5N1.