Oregon state veterinarian Dr. Ryan Scholz says health officials are still trying to connect the dots after an indoor house cat in Washington County contracted bird flu after eating cat food with ...

Oregon bird watchers can sit in front of a backyard tree or venture out to the 12,000-acre Sauvie Island Wildlife Area on the state’s northern border or the 190,000-acre Malheur National ...

Oregon State Veterinarian Ryan Scholz said the number is expected to climb as other cases are investigated. But he said that doesn’t mean bird flu is getting more prevalent.

Now the state bird bill, Senate Concurrent Resolution 18, awaits action in the House, likely in May. Sen. Fred Girod, a fisherman and Republican senator from Stayton, introduced the bill.

On an average night in Multnomah County, about 60,000 birds fly over the state, making their way to nests and breeding grounds. On Wednesday, that number jumped to 700,000.

New research shows that wild birds can account for much of the avian influenza virus evidence found in wastewater in Oregon, suggesting wastewater detections of the virus do not automatically ...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture announced the state is launching a milk testing program, directed by the USDA, to search for bird flu after multi-state bird flu outbreaks.

Oregon state and federal officials confirmed Wednesday that H5N1 bird flu was found in a pig living in Crook County — the first such swine infection reported in the current outbreak.

Officials in Oregon and Washington state warned that bird flu virus was detected in samples of raw pet food made by Wild Coast LLC of Olympia, Washington. RELATED: First H5N1 bird flu case ...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture has a hotline you can call to report a dead bird. You can reach them at 503-986-4711 or through email at [email protected] .