birds

Hundreds of birds migrating through New York City this week died after crashing into the city’s glass towers, a mass casualty event spotlighted by an NYC Audubon volunteer’s tweets showing the World Trade Center littered with bird carcasses. This week’s avian death toll was particularly high, but bird strikes on Manhattan skyscrapers are a persistent problem that NYC Audubon has documented...

Over the past six weeks, hundreds of birds have been spotted with eye and brain problems. Alexandra Dimsdale, a resident of the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Northwest D.C., saw a young bird struggling to see, with its eyes crusted over and hesitating as it hopped. “Just to see a living creature suffering, it’s upsetting. To me, it seemed sad,...

Virginia is examining birds to try to find answers to this rare trend. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A bald eagle found in Warner Springs with a wing droop was released back into the wild.

A new antenna on the International Space Station and receptors on the Argos satellite are allowing scientists to remotely monitor movements of robins in much greater detail than ever before.

Birds of a feather flock together, but this flock took things too far and ended up in need of help from Southern California firefighters and animal services.

The Department of Transportation issued a new rule Wednesday that when it comes to air travel, only dogs can be considered service animals.

Storm Team4’s Amelia Draper talks to a wildlife expert to get advice on birding.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized a package of tiny dead birds from a passenger’s bag at Dulles International Airport in January.