Washington's state bird is the Willow Goldfinch, a flash of brilliant yellow that turns up in backyard feeders, weedy fields, ...

Washington had nine instances of highly pathogenic avian influenza from mid-November through mid-December, though all of those were in backyard flocks and 290 birds were affected, according to USDA ...

Wildlife officials have found hundreds of dead snow geese around Washington’s Skagit Bay, suspected victims of highly pathogenic avian influenza: bird flu. Officials retrieved and disposed of more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird flu has been infecting wild birds around the world for decades, but the latest US outbreak started in January 2022 and has ...

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SEATTLE — Millions of birds continue to silently fly overhead, making their long seasonal journey south. The autumn bird migration season is in full swing, peaking between September 19 and October 11 ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in Washington using data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch. Birds are ranked by the percent of sites visited ...

A Washington state man has been infected with a strain of bird flu that has previously only been detected in animals, and never in humans. Earlier this month, the “severely ill” man was hospitalized ...

A Washington state resident believed to be the first person to be infected with a rare strain of bird flu has died, state health officials announced. The person — an older adult with underlying health ...

(CNN) — A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said on Friday. The patient was an older ...