Researchers are on high alert monitoring the local Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery — though there is good news.

Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out for the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park. There, thousands of elephant ...

February, biologists have been struggling to control an outbreak of avian flu in a colony of more than 1,300 elephant seals at Año Nuevo, a state park 55 miles south of San Francisco. It’s the first ...

California has detected its first cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in marine mammals. Marine veterinarians in ...

Poultry flocks in three southern Wisconsin counties have been confirmed to be infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza.

These geese were alive, but dozens of other wild birds were found dead in the Finger Lakes region this winter. In early February on Canandaigua Lake, the stark winter landscape was dotted with ...

When biologists first noticed increased bird flu cases in October, 49 cases had been reported. But because they can only test a limited number of carcasses, the true number is likely higher.

But why? Experts refer to the disease impacting both domesticized and wild birds as HPAI — though most Americans would recognize the illness as bird flu, or avian influenza. As of Feb. 26, the 2026 ...

DEC announced the start of the 2026 I BIRD NY Challenge where participants must identify 10 or more birds with prizes for the winners.

The annual I BIRD NY Challenge is underway. The challenge is open to all ages from March 1 to November 1. Started in 2017, ...