California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is intended to control dust and provide habitat for fish and birds. Gov. Gavin ...

California hunters will soon have the green light to kill mute swans, a move state officials say is aimed at controlling a "destructive, non-native" species. Starting Jan. 1, anyone with a hunting ...

In his revered 1917 poem “The Wild Swans at Coole,” Irish writer William Butler Yeats describes the fabled birds as brilliant, mysterious creatures representing timeless beauty. California wildlife ...

A silent but formidable threat is spreading across Northern California’s wetlands. The mute swan, a striking white bird once prized for its beauty, has become the focus of urgent action by state ...

Blowing-up birds are bewildering a Bay Area ‘burb. Dozens of birds have met their sudden and violent demise in a California neighborhood in recent months, dropping out of the sky mid-flight and ...

Wintering birds, including the celebrated snow geese, return to California winter. The down side is migrating birds can help spread H5N1 bird flu and other diseases among other bird species, animals ...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, ...