More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

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The dapper black and yellow bobolink likes the Chicago area so much he flies here every spring from South America—a journey ...

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“If you go to a grassland in the Chicago area — if it’s big ... at U.S. bird conservation groups. The nation’s grassland birds, spread across 320 million acres in 14 states, have declined ...

horny projections on their bills. There are other evolutionary theories, too. Some scientists believe that because of the steady blast of the trade winds, light, winged birds might have run a high ...