An elusive bird which is now considered to be extremely rare in Northern Ireland made an unexpected visit to a Belfast street ...

Legal orders requiring poultry to be kept in secure buildings remain in place despite the declaration of ‘disease freedom’ ...

Ireland is now free from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, according to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon. The minister said that the World Organisation ...

Life is punctuated by the chatter of birds — be it the cries of a flock of geese migrating south, a pigeon warbling just outside a cityscape window, or a crow cawing high above the treetops. But this ...

The latest State of the World’s Birds report, published this week, paints the most concerning picture yet of the future of avian species and, by extension, all life on Earth. Nearly half of all bird ...

A blackcap is about the size of a robin. They can be very aggressive at a bird table. Males have a neat jet-black cap and a cold brown-grey body with a pale throat, vent, and undertail coverts.

Chiffchaffs of all ages have green-grey upperparts, their underside is light yellow-grey, and they have a thin, dark eye stripe with a narrow, dull supercilium ('eyebrow') ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland on Wednesday imposed a mandatory country-wide housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from November. 10, following the first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 ...

A bird rarely seen in Northern Ireland made a surprise appearance after being blown off course. K. Mitch Hodge via Unsplash At the end of March, photos started circulating on social media that shocked ...

For a few weeks every year coming into the colder weather, the skies over Ireland are extraordinarily busy, writes Jack ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Ireland reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a turkey farm in the eastern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday, ...