Birds

Starting this spring, the state of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is challenging residents to identify 10 bird species through its 2025 I Bird NY Challenge, a bird observing competition in exchange for a reward.

Warming winters allow once rare species to stay in southern parts of the state year round.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) demanded the Trump administration take action to “develop and approve” a bird flu vaccine for poultry as the virus continues to spread across New York state.

A bald eagle in Connecticut has died from bird flu. UConn confirmed the death after testing an eagle found in the Danielson area in the northeast part of the state.

New York state officials want the public to use a form on the Department of Environmental Conservation's website to help track cases of bird flu.

After a major bird flu outbreak at a Suffolk County farm last week led officials to euthanize about 100,000 ducks there, the focus has shifted to preventing further outbreaks.

According to the Connecticut Audubon Society, it was a great year for the state's shorebirds. WSHU's Sabrina Garone spoke with Joyce Leiz, the group's executive director, about their annual year in review.

The Town of North Hempstead has a unique way of controlling its tick population. WSHU’s Sabrina Garone spoke with Eric Powers of the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery in Brookhaven. He said ticks are a favorite snack of the bobwhite quail!

Tomas Koeck is an award-winning wildlife photographer and filmmaker, as well as a Sacred Heart University graduate student.

The bill would ban all second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides — a rodent poison meant to kill mice and rats that can also hurt birds.