The Tamil poet-saint Andal is identified by the parrot in her hand. The bird is the symbol of Kama, the god of love, lust and sensuality. The same god who in Buddhist works is called Mara ...

“I wanted to come and see you,” the Princess of Wales told 3-year-old Lily-Rose on Jan. 30 REBECCA NADEN/POOL/AFP via Getty While out at engagements in South Wales, Kate Middleton made a ...

Congratulations are in order for Princess Sara bint Faisal of Jordan who recently announced her engagement. To mark the special occasion, the Royal Hashemite Court released two stunning images on ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on pandemics since 2009 and is the ...

Princess Beatrice has reunited with her sister Princess Eugenie after the royal sisters spent their Christmas holidays apart. The York siblings and their mother, Sarah Ferguson, appeared in a new ...

Among the sanctuary’s various internal divisions, the Parrot Garden is a vibrant (and beautifully noisy!) haven dedicated to the care, rehabilitation, and rehoming of parrots. In the very ...

Now, Crescent Duck Farm is the only one left. It produced a million ducks a year, until two weeks ago, when bird flu shut the farm down. Corwin said, "I saw a flock one day that was great ...

The UK has been declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) - and bird "gatherings" have been banned in England and Wales in response to rising cases of bird flu. Strains of the virus have ...

The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

We’re here in the hope of seeing the night parrot, the most mysterious of Australian birds. The night parrot was first recorded by Western observers in 1845, when a member of Charles Sturt’s ...