If you are a non native animals Africa may seem like a very hard continent to infiltrate. Strangely there are plenty of ...

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Numbers have dropped, in some cases sharply, for nearly all of the 42 raptor species surveyed in sub-Saharan regions. By Rachel Nuwer Silhouettes of patrolling raptors filled skies throughout Africa ...

Now that the deadly bird flu virus has spread to poultry in northern Nigeria, experts say it is almost certain to spread further in Africa. Nigeria's poultry population is estimated at 140 million ...

An outbreak of avian influenza virus in Cameroon is raising concerns that the disease, already entrenched in parts of West and Central Africa, might advance southward and ravish the poultry industry. ...

FILE - Flamingoes feed in the popular Berg River estuary in Velddrif, South Africa, Monday Sept. 14, 2020. The alteration of weather patterns like the ongoing drought in east and central Africa ...

High humidity significantly amplifies the threat of lethal hyperthermia in small birds on hot days, robbing them of the ...

The Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project, which Les Underhill leads, has received funding from the South African National Biodiversity Institute. Most of Europe’s birds head south each year ...

Colin Beale receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust, Defra, USAID and the Natural Environment Research Council. Like millions of people around the world, I love watching birds. They’re so ...

Cape Town, South Africa — South Africa has culled about 7.5 million chickens in an effort to contain dozens of outbreaks of two separate strains of avian influenza that threaten to create a shortage ...

A new study shows that small birds migrating from Scandinavia to Africa in the autumn occasionally fly as high as 4,000 meters above sea level -- probably adjusting their flight to take advantage of ...

A trio of American bird hunters depart a South African marsh after a successful day afield pursuing a mix of duck and goose species. An increasing number of international wingshooters are sampling ...