During the COVID-19 pandemic, birds enriched the lives of many Illinoisans who saw them out their windows or when going for a walk Now Illinois should do something to help the birds.

Usually, birds come to me. To my backyard feeder: robins, sparrows, wrens — little brown birds, mostly, with the occasional red cardinal, gray dove or blue warbler offering variety.

BREESE, Ill. -- It looked like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie: hundreds of dead birds covering JoAnn Thole's lawn in this southwestern Illinois town. "I've got 117 pounds of dead birds ...

Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, D-Chicago, left, and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, right, confer during the Democrat Rally at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Wednesday, Aug 15, 2007.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois residents are being urged to stop using bird feeders and bird baths to help slow the spread of avian flu. The EA HFN1 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI ...

Dozens of Illinois birds have been killed by the highly pathogenic avian flu. Dozens of Illinois birds have been killed by the highly pathogenic avian flu, which has also infected some cattle and ...

More than 200 birds at an Illinois forest preserve died in the last week, and authorities suspect they contracted the bird flu that's threatening flocks nationwide, the Forest Preserves of Cook ...

“Waukegan was a natural choice to be named a Bird City,” said Glen Moss, president of the Lake County Audubon Society and a board member of the Audubon Council of Illinois.