When a Bird Becomes Family Imagine coming home after a long, exhausting day. As you open the door, a cheerful voice greets you with a familiar, “Hello!” It’s not your roommate or partner—it’s your ...

1,2 I had no idea about the many roles birds have played in different human societies, ranging from food, messengers, deities, and pets, to omens, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting ...

Walnut’s love for Crowe lasted 20 years ... had a relationship much like Crowe and Walnut’s: When the bird flapped, her human mate flapped; when she bobbed, he bobbed too.

Health officials are alarmed by more than 50 confirmed human cases of a bird flu variant across seven states this year, with a new case confirmed this week in a California child without known ...

One year ago, a human infection of bird flu was reported in Texas. One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after ...