Beyond eating bugs or invasive plant seeds, backyard birds provide people with joy and wonder, said Geoff LeBaron, Christmas Bird Count director for National Audubon Science. “They’re the ...
The Bird Photographer of the Year award has been announced, with Canadian photographer Patricia Homonylo scooping the top prize for her thought-provoking image titled When Worlds Collide.
The culprit? A flock of burrowing parrots that has overrun two rural towns in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province as the birds’ habitat has shrunk over the years and human settlements have grown.
HILARIO ASCASUBI, Argentina, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The town of Hilario Ascasubi near Argentina's eastern Atlantic coast has a parrot problem. Thousands of the green-yellow-red birds have invaded ...
One bird, a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Snowball, lived its whole life – 14 years – in one home, but the owner's daughter has allergies, and Snowball "screeches if he doesn't have non-stop ...
This story is translated from the Spanish by John Newton. Anyone who loves bird watching can tell you that, depending on who’s doing the counting, there are somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 ...
Starr notes that one of the best parts of bird-watching is proper identification. While you can do that without any special equipment, birding essentials like binoculars, a journal, and a good ...
Australia and the rest of Oceania are the last regions free of the highly pathogenic strain of bird flu that has caused mass mortality in birds across the world and a massive outbreak in dairy ...