The birder in your life likely covets "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota: History, Ecology and Conservation," from the University of Minnesota Press. The two-pound doorstopper has 1,145 color images of ...

Possessing bird feathers could get a person cooped up in prison. The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act ...

Discover how tiny black-capped chickadees outsmart brutal Minnesota winters with hidden food stashes, hypothermia tricks and ...

MINNEAPOLIS --A year ago, poultry farms across the state were dealing with a bird flu outbreak. More than 100 Minnesota farms were hit by avian influenza, forcing them to euthanize 3½ million birds.

When T.S. Roberts wrote the last really big Minnesota bird book in 1932, “Birds of Minnesota,” ravens were dwindling, bald eagles were scarce and most everyone assumed the giant subspecies of resident ...

Minnesota's extensive library of books about its birds received a substantial addition recently when the University of Minnesota Press published "Birds in Minnesota." This is yet again a revised and ...

ST. PAUL — A bill being discussed in the Minnesota Legislature first aimed to ban hatching of all birds within Minnesota schools now aims to specifically ban the hatching of waterfowl. HF 4655, which ...

Minnesota's first major bird flu outbreak of 2023 has struck a Meeker County turkey farm, state officials announced Wednesday. The flock of 140,000 birds were culled to prevent further spread, and the ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is back killing domestic poultry and wild birds in Minnesota again this spring as huge flocks of migratory birds carry it north for another season. But, in fact, the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.-- Bird flu has returned to Minnesota less than four months after the deadly poultry disease was last detected in the state, the Board of Animal Health said Monday. The detection was ...