Curiosities often strike me at Christmas. One is why customers are so intent on buying enormous male turkeys when hen birds are more tender and offer a richer flavour. Big is best? Not the case.

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TL;DR: Musician and acoustic scientist Benn Jordan achieved a potential world first by encoding data onto a live European starling. Using a spectral synthesizer, he transformed an image into sound, ...

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Papua New Guinea is a global hotspot of avian biodiversity, home to spectacular and behaviorally complex bird species that occur nowhere else on the planet. A new study shows that forest fragmentation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A 2020 study published in Science Advance reveals just how ...

Hickman's Family Farms lost 95% of its Arizona hen population, roughly 6 million birds, due to avian flu. The company expects job losses and the end of its inmate labor program. The method of ...

March 10 (Reuters) - The Netherlands, one of the world's largest egg exporters, has launched a pilot program on a laying-hen farm to vaccinate poultry against bird flu with the aim of achieving ...

Gov. Mike DeWine said the federal government needs to speed up bird flu research to contain the outbreak, which has cost Ohio nearly a third of its egg-laying hens. Darke County is the center of ...