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It's only a matter of time before the H5N1 bird flu virus reaches the United States, say health officials. Alaska's northwest coast is considered a primary point of entry, and the town of Brevig Mission, which relies on wild birds for subsistence, is worried.

The rate fell again in the most recent Guttmacher Institute survey, continuing a decline since 1980.

Something mysterious stalks a shepherdess on a remote British island in Evie Wyld's visceral new novel, All the Birds, Singing. Reviewer Annalisa Quinn calls it "a museum of sinister curiosities."

After a volunteer collected more than 200 dead migratory birds from the sidewalks around the World Trade Center, bird groups in the city called on the complex to dim unnecessary lights at night.

Millions of migratory birds die every year after slamming into broadcast and cell towers. Scientists found that turning off steady-beam lights on towers reduced bird fatalities by 70 percent.

The National Endowment for the Arts has released a study on reading trends in the U.S. The study shows "startling declines" in "how much and how well" Americans are reading.

A British music education organization reports that use of recorders are declining in the classroom. We wonder: Why were they there to start with? And why is "Hot Cross Buns" such a banger?

One of Hawaii's most threatened seabirds, the Newell's shearwater, makes its home on the island of Kauai. Conservationists there are fighting to keep the iconic bird from disappearing.

When a Texas resident found an abandoned baby bird at a family barbecue, she acted fast to rescue it -- using a warm tortilla.

David Allen Sibley's name is synonymous with his bird field guides. In researching this volume, he became convinced of something new: Birds make complex decisions and experience emotions.

The loss of jobs has stung as the coal industry has declined. Renewable power — especially solar — is now where the jobs are. Solar jobs outnumber those in coal, but coal jobs pay more.

A researcher is documenting all the bird species at Acadia National Park, creating a baseline for changing populations.

David Lamb of the folk duo Brown Bird died of leukemia in 2014. One year later, his musical and life partner Morgan Eve Swain is set to release the pair's final album together.

"The Notbirds" nicely sums up Hopewell's ability to craft arena-friendly, '70s-style psychedelic rock. The song offers a sweet ride of near-perfect guitar rifts and lazy, spaced-out rock, punctuated by aggressive bird noises.

The U.S. government announces that it is expanding efforts to test wild and domestic birds for the deadly Asian bird-flu virus. Experts say it is a matter of when, not if, the virus arrives in the United States. We visit two Maryland chicken farms to see how U.S. farmers are preparing for the threat.

International health officials meeting in Vietnam Wednesday express concern about the potential for a bird flu pandemic in Asia. The disease has killed some 45 people in the region.

Scientists tracking the birds in an experimental forest in New Hampshire have also tracked changes in the forest ecosystem over decades.

In a sign of continued tense relations, the U.S. says China declined the request for a phone call between top defense officials

The layoffs are the latest signal of a major shift within the streaming giant as it recently reported a decline in subscribers for the first time in a decade, as well as slowing revenue growth.

The Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal to a restrictive abortion law in Arkansas that would effectively ban abortions by medication. But this is hardly the end of the line for this case.