According to the secretary of state’s office, it was chosen in honor of President William McKinley, who liked to wear the flowers in his buttonholes. OHIO STATE BIRD The state bird of Ohio is ...

Once a rare sight in Ohio, the American white pelican is becoming increasingly common in the Buckeye State. Naturalist Jim McCormac said in a 2019 column in the Columbus Dispatch that he is ...

Ohio's first human case of bird flu has been reported by the state's Department of Health ... wild birds or sick or dead poultry or other animals. There have been 68 human cases of bird flu ...

A Mercer County farm worker came into contact with dead poultry that was infected with the disease, the state's health department reports.