The Milwaukee County Zoo announced Thursday that it is temporarily closing the Herb & Nada Mahler Family Aviary amid concerns ...

A California quail walks among kale seedlings. A UC Davis study found that bird poop from small birds are unlikely to pose a food safety risk for growers. (Rose Albert, UC Davis) It doesn’t require a ...

Smaller poops from smaller birds carry very low risk of foodborne pathogens on farms, finds a new study. It doesn't require a degree in ornithology, a lab test or even an app for most growers to ...

Osterholm says that the primary kind of birds impacted by the flu is migratory waterfowl, like geese and ducks, and these birds often hang out in farm fields where they defecate. Then, the wind picks ...

Fortunately, about 90% of birds observed on the farms were small and tended to poop mostly on soil, where pathogens perish quickly. By avoiding no-harvest buffers when food-safety risks are low ...

Where pathogens persist Through field and greenhouse experiments, bird surveys, point counts and fecal transects, the authors assessed food-safety risks from nearly 10,000 birds across 29 lettuce ...

Other animals have gotten infected, too. People who work with animals that have bird flu are more likely to get it. Bird flu spreads through an animal’s saliva (spit), mucus, milk, pee, or poop. These ...

Nearly extinct in the mid-20th century due to over-hunting, a whopping 280,000 Canada geese now live in Michigan.

It was bird poop. Everyone had finished their supply of drinking water, and no one had hand sanitizer in their backpack. Two ...