Standing tall at the southern tip of Africa, a male ostrich surveys the shore near the Cape of Good Hope. Growing up to nine feet tall and 300 pounds, Earth’s biggest bird has no shortage of ...

HOW OSTRICH FEATHERS ARE OBTAINED. Share full article. Nov. 26, 1876. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 26, 1876, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Around a thousand performers clad in traditional costumes featuring white wax masks and hats adorned with huge ostrich feathers paraded to the sound of drums in Belgium's most famous carnival on ...

THE ostrich chick on hatching displays an oval, dark-coloured, bare patch towards the hind part of the head. Later, it tends to be hidden by the thick growth of hair-like feathers which cover the ...