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 ...

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 ...

Staff at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis are taking extra precautions to protect raptor species from H5 avian influenza ...

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 ...

Flu expert says bird flu virus may be spread by infected feces blowing in the wind. Dr. Michael Osterholm is a medical detective and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, ...

BIRDS WILL REMAIN INSIDE, OUT OF VIEW FOR PEOPLE COMING INTO THE ZOO ... IT’S MOSTLY FOUND IN THE FECES OF BIRDS, SO THE BIRD POOP. SO IF YOU’RE WALKING AROUND STUFFING BIRD POOP AND THEN ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds ...