Once again, Florida lawmakers are debating whether to replace the northern mockingbird with the Florida scrub-jay as the ...

The South Florida representative wants to declare two new state birds instead: The American Flamingo and the scrub-jay.

The bird, thought to be the only one of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, is presumed to be Stella, an out-of-place raptor ...

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SACRAMENTO -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday "to streamline and expedite the state's response" to bird flu. The declaration is a result of more cases being ...

This week, California declared a state of emergency for bird flu. Thirty-six people in this state have tested positive, and the virus has also been found in 600 cattle herds. Both of those figures ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state of emergency declaration on Wednesday due to bird flu has raised questions about the H5N1 virus, including how it spreads. There are 61 confirmed human cases of bird ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday to combat bird flu, which has spread to more than a quarter of all the state's dairies in the last month and infected 34 state ...

Nearly all infected individuals had direct contact with infected cattle. California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in response to an outbreak of Avian influenza A (H5N1 ...

The emergency declaration allows the governor to release state funds and other resources ... To date this year, 61 human cases of bird flu have been confirmed in the U.S. The virus isn’t known ...