Bird News

Bird South Side Sox / Apr 23, 2022

A cockatiel owned by a family in Ephrata, Penn., escaped from its home about three years ago. Recently, a woman working at a Lancaster church discovered a cockatiel perched on church property. “I saw that it was a bird. And this bird did not move or fly away,” Louise Duncan, a secretary at Christ Un…

Bird South Side Sox / Apr 23, 2022

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, or MDARD, is warning hobby farmers to take extra precautions to protect their chicken flocks from the Avian Bird Flu. The flu is making its way north as birds from the south migrate. MDARD says there’s already been five counties in Michig…

Bird South Side Sox / Apr 23, 2022

Another person in mainland China has tested positive for H5N6 bird flu, raising the number of cases so far this year to 20, officials say. Experts have called for increased surveillance to monitor the spike in human cases. The latest case involves a 56-year-old man from Deyang in Sichuan province wh…

Bird WVPB / Apr 22, 2022

When longtime Evanston resident Laine Hoffman looks out her window at night, she said her yard is aglow with lightning bugs. Across the fence, her neighbors’ yards are dark, she said. The difference? Hoffman said she is selective with what she plants in her garden. “All my plants down in the garden,…