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For wildlife, climate change is a bit like the "final boss" the protagonist faces in a video game: big, hulking and ...

Analysis: Avian influenza viruses can be very contagious between birds, but are generally considered low risk to public ...

A recent DNA study out of the University of El Paso found that less than 5 percent of mallards sampled from the Atlantic ...

Graeme has been buying, breeding, caring for and selling reptiles for 20 years although his love of birds as been lifelong.

The Blacktail Deer Foundation is a new critter conservation organization designed to address needs of the Western deer ...

A new study highlights the need to ramp up bird flu surveillance in cats because some of them have frequent contact with both ...

By John Pepin Michigan Department of Natural Resources Earlier this week, along a snow-covered highway near the ...

High-energy and protein-filled foods help birds survive cold nights. The American Bird Conservancy says to stock bird feeders ...

Small seabirds skim the open ocean at night, patting their legs on the surface as they hunt for small fish. Now, for the first time in more than 100 years, endangered Polynesian storm petrels ...

David Attenborough's latest docuseries came to a close this weekend - taking a look at critically endangered species.

As water begins to accumulate in public duck hunting areas throughout Arkansas, hunters are starting to scramble to find the ...