I was glancing at the birds feeding on the balcony today. My favorite is an old timer, a cardinal that has lost most of his top notch to old age and he features gray feathers mixed with his red plumage. It makes a...
Free Hopper I decided to hang a birdfeeder on the balcony. Goldfinches visit the various flowers as a matter of routine, especially attending the sunflowers. On occasion, we get a visit from a cardinal. Commonly,...
Yesterday, while walking in the woods, I found a whole robin egg lying on the ground. I looked around and didn't see a nest, nor did I see any frantic robin. Is it possible that a robin mother is like a...
It is spring and outside my window is a gang of crows, four of them. There is also a pair of Coopers hawks. When one of the hawks is away somewhere, the crows begin dive bombing the hawk. The hawk takes off and...
According to the Mayan Calender we are entering into the 5th dimension, the age of Aquarius. Whether you believe this or not is up to you. Yet the mass death of birds and other animals across the globe is making us wonder what is going on with Mother Earth. Scientist state...
Next time someone calls you a bird brain, don't take it too hard. Birds especially crows can be quite creative and clever as these two videos demonstrate. These crows were not trained to perform these actions,...
opinion by Letemhang | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 54 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The sound of the birds singing just as dawn was coming alive. What a pleasure it was.....now apart from a few confused looking seagulls sat on the roof top all you hear is silence...i sit in my garden and look at...
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In Russia the keen eyesight of the pigeon is put to a very practical use for, at one factory in Moscow, they are used to sort ball-bearings. After four or five weeks special training, the birds inspect the ball-bearings as they pass on a conveyor. If any show the least...
opinion by MrGhaz | 1 year ago 253 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
City birds can afford to sleep in their nests a little longer than their country cousins according to a new report from the British Trust for Ornithology. The micro-climate created by urban human activity sees the...
created by Paul Conneally | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 218 views | 32 recommendations | 4 comments
From the fossils discovered in northernwest China a new evolution evidence about how dinosaur evolved into bird has come out. The remains were discovered in northwest China that are deposited 159 million years...
created by jjenet | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 660 views | 14 recommendations | 0 comments
Two gay penguins at a zoo in Bremerhaven Germany have hatched their own chick and are now acting as its adoptive parents. They were given the egg as it was rejected by its biological parents so the gay couple...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 624 views | 44 recommendations | 4 comments
160 birds were found dead or dying near a garbage dump in the southern Perth suburb of Henderson. After several contamination checks, the cause of the birds' deaths was traced to phosphorus-based insecticide called Fenthion. "Nearly 200 ibises, ravens, gulls, ducks and a...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 177 views | 24 recommendations | 2 comments
Three species of birds are close to extinction now due to loss of habitat and deforestation. The Ethiopian Lark, the Galapagos Finch and a certain species of hummingbird from Colombia have all been added to ...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 317 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
Endangered Maleo birds are getting their own stretch of Indonesian beach to help protect them from poachers, all for the low price of $12,500. Maleos look like chickens, but with black backs, pink stomachs and yellow...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 856 views | 49 recommendations | 4 comments