CHICAGO — While on a recent visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden, Ann Harness spotted a creature she’d never seen before. The tall brown bird with a long bill looked like a cross between a rail and a ...

While spring migration is celebrated as a great time to spot colorful birds, there are also plenty of unique songbirds and other species you can see in the late summer and fall in southwest Illinois ...

Bird flu is increasingly sparking concern across the country and in Illinois, following news this week of the first human death from the virus in the U.S., and of birds found throughout Illinois with ...

Millions of birds crossed over Illinois overnight in their spring migration, and “Migration Alerts” are active as those flights will continue. According to Birdcast, more than 22 million birds crossed ...

(NBC Chicago) — More than four million birds crossed Illinois Saturday night into Sunday morning and more are expected in the coming days as an annual spring migration of birds over the United States ...

Millions of birds are currently flying through the Great Plains and the Midwest as they make their way toward their spring breeding sites, and many of those birds are flying through Illinois this week ...

Bird flu — also known as avian influenza or H5N1 — has been spreading among animals in Illinois. This week, hundreds of ducks were found dead along Lake Michigan. So far, there have been no reported ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk of an outbreak of the bird flu in humans is low, although Illinois’ health department is preparing for the possibility. On Friday, the ...