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Border agents pulled four live birds from the pockets of a pigeon collector and a traveling companion trying to enter the United States from Canada. The pair were stopped Sunday at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge border crossing, where they told inspectors they were on their way to visit an uncle in LeRoy, outside Rochester, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Kevin Corsaro said.
Hundreds of dead or injured seabirds have washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay in recent weeks, and scientists believe a red tide of marine algae is to blame.
Forty birds in Montana, including the stately sage grouse, are among the "most imperiled" birds in the country, conservationists announced.
Nearly 30 percent of the nation's most threatened birds species can be found in South Carolina, according to a conservation report released Wednesday.
Dead birds are washing ashore in Antrim County, and environmental scientists suspect botulism associated with invasive mussels is to blame.
Wind energy may be emerging as an important alternative power source for the Northwest, but there are concerns about the danger to hawks and eagles as turbines expand to wild areas of the Columbia River Gorge.
Researchers have decoded proteins from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, the oldest such material ever found. The unprecedented step, once thought impossible, adds new weight to the idea that today's birds are descendants of the mighty dinosaurs.
.The nest boxes were all in the Red Forest, a few kilometres from Chernobyl’s reactor 4 which exploded in 1986 (black dots, bottom left) (Image: Proc. Roy. Soc. B)
H5N1 bird flu was found in a closed turkey farm in the UK. How did it get there? (Graphic: David Johnston)
Natural causes were to blame for the deaths of 63 birds found dead in downtown Austin last week, briefly sparking fears of a public health threat, a scientist said Thursday.
Seven beheaded animals — three chickens, three pigeons and a fish — were discovered Tuesday on a central New Jersey beach.
There are between 92 million and 180 million great tits in cities and natural habitats across Europe, according to BirdLife International (Image: Current Biology/Slabberkoorn)
Birdsongs are so distinctive they are often used by ornithologists to identify individual birds. Now a novel study shows that birds are not "pre-programmed" to sing their song – rather, birds listen closely to their tune to keep their songs note perfect.
Bird rescuers are trying to determine what caused dozens of dead and sickly tern chicks to wash up on a beach Wednesday.
The driver was sober. The bird that crashed through the windshield of his car might have been flying under the influence.
The first detailed look at the ancestor of modern birds — a grebe-like waterbird that would look normal even today — was shown off Thursday by scientists who discovered fossil remains in a remote lake bed in China.
Experts who conducted tests on 40 songbirds found dead in Vienna say they didn't die of bird flu as initially feared, but slammed into windows after becoming intoxicated from eating fermented berries.
Very interesting caves in rocky blocks
Photo taken in my green village..It is full of with fresh air.
Most newborn mammals, some reptiles and even some fish emerge swimming or generally flailing about. But baby birds and turtles are stuck cracking open eggshells.
"The Georgia Department of Agriculture has ordered hundreds of exotic birds across the state to be quarantined. These exotic birds could be carrying Psittacosis, a disease that can spread to humans.
Kiwi numbers have declined rapidly over the past century, as populations struggled with the twin threats of shrinking habitat and expanding legions of new predators.
There were too many squirrels in Santa Monica and too many pigeons in Hollywood.
University of East Anglia researchers have discovered the existence of 'grandparent' helpers in the Seychelles warbler, a small songbird found on four granitic and corraline islands in the Seychelles.
When Heidi L. Hoefer, a veterinarian who specializes in treating small exotic pets like birds and rabbits, used to practice in New York, "a week didn't go by that we didn't have a case of lead poisoning in small birds," she said.
In light of the recent spill in San Francisco Bay, this hearing examines the oil spill threats, risks, and vulnerabilities posed by large non-tank vessels.
More people are leaving money for their pets as states pass laws legalizing pet trusts. As a result, estate lawyers and special animal care businesses — both big and small — have emerged to cater to pets when their owners die.
"Tiny bumps on the fossilized arm bone of a Velociraptor specimen show that the carnivorous dinosaur—made infamous in the movie "Jurassic Park"—had feathers.
New species found in the pristine Foja mountains of Indonesia
Το κοινό αηδόνι Luscinia megarhynchos είναι από τα πιό ξακουστά πουλιά που ανήκουν στην οικογένεια των τσιχλών.
They are beautiful little birds! A pair showed up to eat sunflower chips from my feeder today. They didn't stay long, so I hope they come back!
An albatross is the grandest living flying machine on Earth. An albatross is bone, feathers, muscle, and the wind. An albatross is its own taut longbow, the breeze its bowstring, propelling its projectile body.
Definitions of what features constitute cultural behaviour, and hence define cultures are numerous. Many seem designed to describe those aspects of human behaviour which set us apart from other animals.
A Berlin woman who rescued a sick three-day-old duckling has kept the animal as a pet, taking him for walks on a leash, watching television together on the couch and feeding him mozzarella cheese as a treat.
Κατάλογος με τις ονομασίες πουλιών, όπως αυτές αναφέρονται σε διάφορες περιοχές
A rare burrowing bird known as a Cook's petrel seems to have dug a real hole for itself: it lives on a small island crawling with hungry rats and cats.
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