Searing heat may have played a role in the infections of five workers who fell ill last week while culling a large flock of chickens infected with the H5N1 virus in Colorado, health officials said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Triple-digit temperatures, industrial fans and carts used to kill millions of sick chickens with gas may have caused the largest ...

Winters in the Colorado Rocky Mountains can be long and formidable. Before the snow flies, thousands of birds migrate each fall to escape the cold. Mary Harris, the chair of the Roaring Fork Audubon, ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Bird flu killed most of a backyard chicken flock in Colorado, a federal lab confirmed, as officials warned of a rise in the disease during migratory season. The new case of highly ...

Colorado health officials have confirmed a fourth human bird flu case, with a fifth also suspected, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

PUEBLO, Colo. — Farmers in Colorado who raise birds are cautiously monitoring the bird flu outbreak. The Colorado Department of Agriculture reports the most recent cases were found in Larimer County ...

A male Gunnison sage-gouse puts on a display on BLM land near Gunnison. Photo by Noppadol Paothong / Courtesy Colorado Parks & Wildlife The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

Coloradans are being asked to dim their lights to aid millions of birds flying over the state each night amid the annual fall migration. Every year, billions of birds migrate north in the spring and ...

An unusual interaction with a bird is often one way a bird lover is born. For Debbie Barnes- Shankster, it was the black-capped chickadee that alighted on her hand when she was 6 to steal seeds a ...

The flaming carcass of an electrocuted bird was determined to be the cause of the Quail Hollow fire in July in Arapahoe County, Colorado, that burned more than 1,100 acres and destroyed property ...