Every spring, more than 200,000 northern gannets — stocky seabirds with dazzling white feathers — journey to the coast of eastern Canada. There, they blanket oceanside cliffs and rocky outcroppings, breeding in enormous colonies before flying back south for the winter.

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different

Idaho's Department of Fish and Game says suspected avian flu outbreaks statewide are leading to thousands of wild bird deaths.