domesticated birds

That’s how she landed on The Duck Pond Inc., a waterfowl sanctuary for domesticated birds run by Howard Berkowitz.

Danovich invites readers to consider chickens as gentle domesticated birds living in a human-centered world and contends that getting to know chickens, through second hand knowledge or by raising one's own flock, can expand human empathy and change our behavior to make their lives better.

Carol Cardona, Pomeroy chair in avian health at University of Minnesota, said vaccination would make it more possible to predict and to protect domesticated birds.

Better known as bird flu, avian influenza is a family of highly contagious viruses that are not typically harmful to most wild birds that transmit it, but are deadly to domesticated birds.

Why is avian influenza so deadly for domesticated birds but not for wild birds that carry it?