While it's tragic and alarming to see a massive die-off, it's not uncommon for birds that travel in such large populations.

Watching ducks eat is so fun, it might as well be a national pastime. After all, who doesn’t have fond memories of going to ...

I thought it might have been a female Ring-necked Duck, but a view through my spotting scope showed the characteristic ...

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago ...

Challenging on the wing, widely distributed, and excellent on the table, the canvasback is the paragon of diving ducks, just as the mallard symbolizes the dabblers. Today, the canvasback is ...

As it mutates, the bird flu has seemingly been able to infect other bird species, pets, other kinds of animals and, on rare ...

The birds, typically Red-breasted and Common Mergansers, are native diving ducks often found on lakes. Video from Chicago beaches over the weekend shows dozens of dead mergansers washed ashore ...