Meet the ‘Wonderchicken’: Scientists identify the oldest fossil ever found of a modern bird thought to be an ancestor of today’s hens and ducks The Wonderchicken — or ‘Asteriornis’ — lived around 67 million years ago According to the researchers it resembles a ‘mash-up’ of a duck and a chicken It was a small bird … Read more
Bird flu is detected in both India and The Philippines prompting cull of more than 12,000 quails, chickens and ducks More than 12,000 quail birds have been culled to stop bird flu in the Phillippines Quail farm detects the highly infectious H5N6 subtype of the bird flu virus Authorities are now contact-tracing to determine the … Read more
We don’t know how this will end, but we have a good idea of how it started. The coronavirus sweeping the world can be traced back to a food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new strain first transferred from wildlife to humans. The idea of cross-species infection scares us because it … Read more
Budgie baldie: Pet bird cannot grow feathers because it was so STRESSED while living with previous owner Coco has psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) that stops feather growth The three-year-old budgie is said to have been mistreated by previous owners But a heart-warming video shows her now living happily with her new owners By … Read more