This boldly colored species boldly returns to Michigan in mid- to late February. By mid-March red-winged blackbirds can be ...

But an Indiana Department of Natural Resources specialist says that case numbers should drop as temperatures warm.

according to the International Crane Foundation. In recent regional events in wild birds, bird flu was found in a die-off of hundreds of waterfowl along the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago.

The Department of Natural Resources confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, was found in a merganser recovered in early February along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Milwaukee County ...