LANSING — The backyard birds are back but with avian influenza being widespread, is it safe for people to fill up their wild bird feeders this spring? Experts from Michigan State University, the ...

Some 130 wild birds have tested positive for bird flu in Michigan, with most detections in Canada geese, bald eagles and red-tailed hawks.

Michigan winters are no joke. The cold settles in, the snow sticks around forever, and the world gets quiet in that deep, frozen way unique to the Great Lakes region. But even in the middle of that ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has a text messaging service called Winged Wednesday to share information about migrating bird species. Residents and visitors can sign up for the alerts ...

LANSING — State agencies are giving updates on their response to the bird flu, which saw widespread outbreaks last year in flocks across Michigan. Tim Boring, director of the Michigan Department of ...

The world’s longest-running bird census is underway in Michigan. For more than a century, bird enthusiasts across the Western ...

Cooler temperatures this week are giving Michiganders a break from air conditioning and a chance to pull out their fall sweatshirts. For birds, it’s migration time — with more than 3.6 million birds ...

Migratory bird season peaks in Michigan in May. Dairy and poultry farmers worry that the birds could bring H5N1 avian influenza with them to Michigan and infect their flocks and herds. Scientists are ...

Michigan's native birds are arriving for the summer from near and far, but you might not notice as many travel at night. "The movements are massive," said Andrew Farnsworth, a migration ecologist at ...

Millions of birds are expected to fly over the U.S. to reach their migratory destinations, and a sizeable fraction of them will pass through Michigan after the sun goes down on Sept. 29. Late on ...

Michigan may be for the birds, but residents don't seem to mind. In fact, Michiganders spend the winter watching for snowy owls visiting from the Arctic, and then await the spring return of ...