The numbers tell an impressive story. Beloved US bird known for distinct morning call makes incredible comeback after years ...

At least four commercial farms in Maricopa County have closed due to bird flu outbreaks that have decimated chicken flocks.

Last year an estimated 33,500 quail hunters took approximately 407,000 birds statewide. “We had approximately 260,000 hunters and harvested about 7.8 million birds in 1987-88.

With a special little tooth on its bill, the chick pips the shell and squirms out. The tooth is shed after a few days. The chicks dry quickly into buff-and-brown balls of down. Instead of being ...

Bob Harkins grooms three bird dogs he’s training for friends before going out training on land he manages for bobwhite quail, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Fairfield County.

Charlie Thorne, 13, said he "was just doing my thing" early Wednesday morning when he heard a distinctive bird call.

Weighing 140 to 300 grams, Baminornis was much smaller than Archaeopteryx – about the size of a quail – and it would have looked more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx did, says Wang. Some ...

Quill mites, belonging to the family Syringophilidae, are obligate ectoparasites that permanently occupy the quills of bird feathers. These mites have coevolved with their avian hosts over ...

Bird dog trainers like the quail to work their pups. David Heine, who trains bird dogs in the Flathead Valley, spoke in favor of House Bill 57 on Feb. 4.

Life Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird. Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived ...