The HPAI strain of avian flu is infecting and killing birds in Missouri and Kansas. Several cases have been reported around ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Kansas Department of Agriculture says there has been two recent cases of bird flu in the state. “So, yes, we are on heightened alert,” said Dr. Justin Smith, the health ...

A rare Ross's gull found deceased Feb. 5 in southwest Kansas did not die of starvation, a state Department of Wildlife and ...

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is hitting the Kansas City metro, Lawrence and surrounding areas hard right now, according to a media release from Operation Wildlife. The organization reports ...

Talks of the bird flu have seemed to take over social media in recent months. Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a virus that primarily impacts poultry flocks. It is usually passed onto them by ...

Bird watchers are flocking to southwest Kansas after the appearance there of a Ross's gull, a rare species generally found only in Siberia, Greenland, Canada and northern Alaska. "This is a really big ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW)—Wild birds in Kansas are dying from suspected bird flu. Some reservoirs estimate more than 1 in 100 birds have died this season. The deaths are happening in several different ways ...

Migrating birds often drive up numbers of avian influenza among wild birds and sometimes farm animals. Migrating flocks of wild birds can carry avian influenza, also known as the bird flu. That’s why ...

The Kansas Department of Agriculture says a resurgence in avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has affected poultry ...

Pull off Kansas 156 in Barton County during a wet year and it might feel like you took a wrong turn into Florida. This part of central Kansas is home to the largest interior wetlands in the country: ...

The photo on the left shows the Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands in central Kansas filled with water and birds in 2017. The photo on the right shows the same wetlands dry and empty this year as drought ...