Pet birds are very popular and loads of people have bird feeders in their back yards. That makes for birdseed being a huge business! Most people of course don鈥檛 give much thought to what it...
Every year upwards of 25 million birds are killed in Canada due to collisions with buildings, communication towers, wind turbines, and as a result of being tangled into marine gillnets. From window...
A certain amount of the muddy colour can be attributed to the different colours of food we eat. Like mixing all the paint colours together, the result is a dull brown. But, much bigger factors for...
Believe it or not, some 200 tons of birds鈥� nests are consumed in the world every year with Hong Kong diners leading the way.聽 We鈥檙e not talking any old birds鈥� nest here.聽 These are very special...
Despite popular misconception, ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand. This myth originated in ancient Rome and is so pervasive that it鈥檚 used as a common metaphor for someone avoiding...
The Shetland Islands are famous for sheep and wool. 聽But did you know that they are also home to the stormy petrel? 聽This unusual bird, so-named because it was thought to appear before a storm, has...
In August 1961, in Capitola and Santa Cruz, California there was an invasion of what people described as 鈥渃haotic seabirds.鈥� These birds were believed to be under the influence of domoic acid, a...
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