It's early morning in the San Gabriel Mountains and we're standing in an unremarkable dirt parking lot. The hills around us are dotted with chaparral vegetation, and Los Angeles sprawls just south of ...

The reason comes down to survival. During an ice storm and prolonged cold, birds need extra energy to keep warm. Their bodies rely on shivering to generate heat, which means their metabolism has to ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has issued a warning about bird flu, caused by the virus H5N1, that is killing domestic cats. On Dec. 20, the agency reported that five, indoor-only ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - On Wednesday, Dec. 18, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed that a man was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu. They also said that the man is over the age of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana has announced the first human death related to the bird flu in the country. The patient had been hospitalized with the first human case of the bird flu, or H5N1.

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Lauren Hill, a graduate student at Cal State LA, holds a bird at the bird banding site at Bear Divide in the San Gabriel Mountains. (Grace Widyatmadja/NPR) It's early morning in the San Gabriel ...