In June of 2009, a committee met at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to do a routine safety review of proposed research projects. One of those projects involved genetically modifying flu viruses.

A scientific journal has finally published the details of how to make mutant forms of bird flu. These viruses were created last year by a lab that's trying to stay ahead of a possible flu pandemic, so ...

Iowa Department of Natural Resources staff put a Motus tag on a wood thrush to track its migration, in the hopes of learning important information about the bird. (Photo courtesy of DNR's YouTube ...

Michael Sanchez had traveled from Vancouver, Washington to northwest Oregon last week to take photographs of waterfalls – not birds. An amateur photographer, Sanchez, 41, figured the scenic sites of ...

If you ask Georgia birders what bird has the sweetest song during spring and summer, their answer most likely will be the wood thrush. Some even believe the wood thrush’s song is the most beautiful ...