On a handful of volcanic islands strung between Kyushu and Okinawa, a small olive-green warbler has been singing a song no ...

For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and careful ...

(Adds details, background) By Miho Yoshikawa TOKYO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in southwestern Japan was due to the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus, a farm ministry ...

By Naina Rao For decades, the research community thought that the small, olive-green songbirds found on two Japanese islands ...

Sado (Japan) (AFP) – Every day for the past 14 years, 72-year-old Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out before sunrise to search for a bird rescued from extinction in Japan. Starting his car under star-dotted ...

Diplomatic ties between Japan and China are often tense, but in a sign of a recent thaw the Asian neighbors could cooperate to save an endangered species of bird. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is likely ...

Japan culled almost 10 million birds in a record outbreak of avian influenza which has already devastated poultry flocks worldwide, Bloomberg reported. Japan's agriculture ministry said that 9.98 ...

Up to 77 people in Japan may have been infected with a mild form of bird flu, in what could be the world's first case of human infection of the H5N2 virus, health officials said Tuesday. The possible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan culled over 17 million chickens this season amid its worst bird flu outbreak ever, per NHK. Local governments and farmers ...

Japan reported its first case of bird flu (search) in a human on Wednesday — a man who got the disease from birds. Bird flu has swept through farms across Asia this year, forcing officials to cull ...