Just as many of us living here today didn’t have family in Wyoming at the turn of the last century or earlier, many bird species didn’t either. I was perusing “Birds of Wyoming” by Douglas W. Faulkner ...

Wyoming’s patient zero arrived at the state’s Wildlife Health Laboratory in late March. Someone found the Canada goose dead in Bighorn County. The test came back positive for the deadly H5N1, a strain ...

Kim Jordan, left, a University of Wyoming master’s degree student from Burleson, Texas, who works in the Tarwater Lab, demonstrates how to measure the wing chord of a bird in hand at WYOBIRD’s fall ...

LARAMIE - Like a medieval warrior poised for battle, Lee Grater's female peregrine falcon rests tensely on her master's fist. Her long black talons extend from vibrant yellow feet and grasp the ...

A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu Health officials say she was likely infected via handling sick birds in a backyard flock The woman is “an older adult” with “other health ...

The Wyoming Livestock Board and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic ...

A technician performs tests on chickens for bird flu in 2006 at the Best Live Poultry & Fish store in Sylmar. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) A woman in Wyoming was hospitalized with H5N1 bird ...

A woman in Wyoming was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials who say she was likely infected by handling sickened birds in a backyard flock. According to a statement from ...