A young student from Anne Arundel County turned her passion for birds into a published book.Xaviana Leis is not your typical 11-year-old."I wanted to make something that would help inspire others to ...

Due to a $30,000 contract expansion between the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, more wildlife technicians will become available in ...

Delaware is the latest state to discover a mysterious sickness among songbirds, with at least 50 dead birds reported so far. The cause is not yet known, but affected birds are "stricken by an unknown ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --Stop by the Maryland Zoo sometime soon and you'll likely notice a conspicuous change: some of the birds are missing from their habitats. The zoo announced on Tuesday it has ...

Maryland's Department of Natural Resources has expanded its efforts to manage dead wild birds. According to a news release, the DNR has increased its contract with the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health ...

On Maryland’s eastern shore, small islands used by birds for nesting are disappearing. That coincides with a steep drop in several species of colonial nesting birds in the state. But this spring, in ...

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. (AP) -- The discovery of avian influenza in Maryland compelled agriculture officials to order the slaughter of 328,000 birds on two huge commercial chicken farms, nearly four times ...

The Maryland Department of Agriculture has announced a presumptive positive case of H5 avian influenza in a commercial ...