Birds

A wind energy company has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms across the U.S.

Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza.

Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states and cost the federal government nearly $1 billion

Over 70 applications were made to lease part of Scotland’s seabed for wind farm developments.

The Biden administration is drafting rules to govern the killing of wild birds by industry and will resume enforcement actions against companies responsible for deaths that could have been prevented.

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...

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.

A glass railing in the World Trade Center complex is creating a problem for birds that aren’t native to New York, leaving them hurt, “stunned” or dead

Dozens of birds are being found stunned, confused or dead near the World Trade Center memorial, and advocates say a glass railing may be to blame. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

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.