The spring hunt of any waterfowl except scoters will be closed beginning May 30 at 12:01 a.m. through midnight on June 29.

Numbers of adult peregrine falcons on the upper Yukon River in Alaska ... think the avian bird flu is probably killing adult peregrine falcons, maybe before they get to Alaska.

“These aren’t the right kind of rocks,” Tony Fiorillo said, pointing at the jagged pink and black stones along Alaska’s Yukon River ... footprints made by a bird the size of a willet ...