Rutland Herald3d
The Outside Story: Northeastern hawks soaring through winter
Driving on Vermont’s interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular intervals along the road. With the stark landscape providing better ...
Opinion
COLUMN: Stoic birds will adapt to harsh winter
Now is the time of year when we savor the last warm embraces of the sun and think ahead to the dreary days of winter lying in wait to chill our hands and feet. We grumble and complain and swear ...
What can save the desert's most tenacious birds? Tiny underground apartments.
In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...
Vermont Community Newspaper Group5d
Northeastern hawks still soar throughout cold winter months
Driving on Vermont’s Interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular ...
Oxford Mail2d
Cotswolds: How to recognise native birds of prey in the UK?
People traipse cross-country to see clouds of kites, or to catch a glimpse of a golden eagle in its highland home, and webcams fixed on the nests of ospreys, owls and peregrine falcons draw huge ...
Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Standard2d
See sparrowhawks, kestrels, buzzards, red kites and falcons
How to spot birds of prey such as sparrowhawks, kestrels, buzzards, red kites and peregrine falcons in the Cotswolds ...
Cotswold Journal3d
How can I recognise our native birds of prey in the UK?
People traipse cross-country to see clouds of kites, or to catch a glimpse of a golden eagle in its highland home, and webcams fixed on the nests of ospreys, owls and peregrine falcons draw huge ...
The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...
UPI5d
Bird strike detection systems to be deployed at all S. Korean airports following Jeju Air crash
A preliminary report issued last week by South Korea's Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board confirmed that blood and bird feathers were found in each of the plane's two engines.
CNN3d
Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals
The strain had previously been found only in birds and people. Most bird flu infections in dairy cattle in the US have been the B3.13 variant, or what’s become known as the “cattle clade.” ...
Mongabay4d
In Brazil, free-flight lessons help teach macaws to survive in the wild
In an unprecedented project in the municipality of São Simão, blue-and-yellow macaws born in captivity were trained in free-flight techniques before being introduced into the wild. Traditionally ...
CNN6d
Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...