Tag: Birds - Page 3
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Neiman Marcus' $100k Chicken Coop is a Little 'Eggcessive'
Do you love your chickens enough to buy them a $100k chicken coop?
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Birds Help Capture Stunning Video Footage In New Documentary
Turning birds into videographers helped one director create the jaw-dropping documentary, Winged Planet.
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"Bird Brain" Loses Insult Power Due to Discovery of Brain Structures Similar to Mammals
Throwing the insult "bird brain" at someone you think in stupid could start to backfire; birds have smart centers in their brains like mammals.
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Artists Build a 'Shanty Town' for Evicted Urban Birds
The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal.
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In Japan, a Treehouse Goes to the Birds--and One Lucky Bird Watcher
This mixed-use treehouse gives Japanese bird-lovers a close-up view into the lives of feathered fowl.
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Caption Contest Winners! What Are These Birds Saying?
Our top five captions for this contest are in!
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Western Scrub Jays Call Their Friends to "Funerals"
The call a jay makes upon finding a dead jay causes other jays to gather. Scientists report on their attempts to understand these "bird councils".
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Caption Contest! What are these two birds saying to each other?
This photo is begging for a caption -- and yours could win the contest!
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Solar Replaces Vultures for Traditional "Sky Burials", But Vultures May Come Back
The Parsi community disposes of bodies by letting vultures feast on them, but a crash in vulture populations saw them turning to solar. Until now.
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Strawbale Chicken Coop Demonstrates Simplicity of Good Design
From insulated strawbale walls to an automatic, rainwater-fed watering system, this coop is both smart and surprisingly simple at the same time.
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Adding Wildlife 'Passengers' to the Urban Commute
A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.
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Shade-Grown Coffee Isn't Just for the Birds
New study shows that agroforestry may have economic as well as environmental benefits.
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What's Making Holes in Your Tomatoes?
Do your tomatoes look like Swiss cheese? Here are two likely culprits that are making holes in your tomatoes and how to deal with them.
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Endangered Crowned Cranes About to Hatch 3 Eggs on Webcam
The East African Crowned crane species is on the decline, but one dedicated bird sanctuary is about to add three new members to the species!
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Bird's Daunting Deep-Sea Dive Caught on POV Camera
If our fine, feathered friends had their own Olympics, Imperial cormorants would be going home with the gold.
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Study Finds Bird Ingestion of Plastic in North Pacific Among Highest in the World
Seabirds are eating ocean plastic pollution at an all time rate, and the problem is only getting worse.
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Brazil's Mass Penguin Die-Off 'Natural', Say Scientists
According to Brazil's center for coastal studies, nothing was found on the birds' bodies to indicate any human activity led to the deaths -- though questions still remain.
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Just a Hen Who Thinks She Hatched Kittens (Photos)
This adorably confused hen thinks she hatched a litter of kittens on a farm -- and proves hens and cats can co-exist.
