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Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many ...
Before the sunset, a flock of birds flew above the treetops, getting ready to settle in for the night. More for You 30 things Americans consider normal – but no one else understands ...
Ben Crair on the hoatzin, the bird that is seemingly defying the concept behind the tree of life; B10K, a research group that is trying to sequence the genome of every species of bird; and DNA ...
Ludington firefighters responded to a report of a fly-away parrot Tuesday evening, Aug. 16, at the corner of Emily and Loomis streets. The exotic bird was rescued from a maple tree.
That tree lives unaffected by either the presence or the absence of the bird’s nest, but the bird that built that nest needed a protective place above ground to raise its offspring.
Between now and mid-October is the height of fall migration, when tens of millions of birds — songbirds, raptors, shorebirds and water fowl — fly across Georgia on their way to the southern ...
But elephant birds, who lived more than 1,200 years ago, were likely the biggest birds to ever exist at over 1,500 pounds. Some even clocked in around 1,900 pounds , according to Scientific American.
Indiana’s skies are a nighttime highway in the early weeks of May as millions of birds make the migratory passage north for their summer homes. Herons, sparrows and buntings of all varieties fly ...