Birds

With egg prices soaring, the Trump administration is planning a new strategy for fighting bird flu that stresses vaccinations and tighter biosecurity instead of killing off millions of chickens when the disease strikes a flock

Health officials in Louisiana say a person there has died after catching bird flu. This marks the first reported death in the U.S. from the virus during the current outbreak.

American white pelicans, with 9-foot, black-tipped wings and long orange beaks, are typically migratory birds. The birds’ numbers in the region dropped in the 19th and 20th centuries. But in recent years, they’ve been overwintering around the Columbia River, and they’ve set up at least two colonies that are now home to thousands of breeding pairs.

White pelican populations in Oregon have been increasing in recent decades. We hear from an avian biologist about the possible implications of these changes.

Experts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree that current risk to the general public is low. But flu viruses evolve, and it won’t take too many leaps for H5N1 bird flu to gain the ability to spread among people.

Experts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree that current risk to the general public is low. But flu viruses evolve, and it won’t take too many leaps for H5N1 bird flu to gain the ability to spread among people.

Nearly a century after starting a wildlife rehabilitation program in Northwest Portland, the Bird Alliance of Oregon is preparing to expand its footprint with a new site near McDaniel High School.

Farm workers haveAfter working around an infected poultry flock at a commercial egg farm, four agricultural workers in southeast Washington have preliminarily tested positive for bird flu. The cases, if confirmed by the CDC, would be the first time people in Washington have contracted the virus since officials began tracking it in the U.S. in 2022.

A nonprofit group fights an uphill battle to save the victims of a massive outbreak of avian botulism that continues to ravage waterfowl at one of the Klamath National Wildlife Refuges.

The Bird Alliance of Oregon hasn’t yet pinpointed what spurred the swifts to abandon their roost, or whether they’ll return this year.