After two animals died of bird flu in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s bird house will be closed for the near future.

Their deaths came within a day of each other, the Chicago zoo said in a Jan. 15 news release. Teal, a months-old Chilean ...

The sources of exposure are unclear, but officials said it was almost certainly from contact with an infected waterfowl.

Officials at Lincoln Park Zoo confirmed Wednesday that a harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo each died of highly pathogenic ...

A harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo died from the bird flu this month at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, officials said.

Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that a bird flu pandemic was ...

A Chilean flamingo died Jan. 8 and a harbor seal died Jan. 9, with testing confirming highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI ...

Testing has confirmed that HPAI was the cause of death for Teal, a Chilean flamingo chick, on Jan. 8; and Slater, a harbor ...

There are five different species of flamingo, one of which is the Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), which is featured in the above video. The clip shows the bird moving its beak from ...

The Chilean flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and died Jan. 8. The 7-year-old harbor seal, named Slater, died the next ...

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo announced the death of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo as a result of the Avian Influenza, a highly pathogenic disease in free-ranging waterfowls.

Lincoln Park Zoo said the specific source of the exposure of the animals to bird flu, or H5N1 virus, is not known.