This field guide gives finally Northwest birds the razzing they so richly deserve
Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror ...
Plastic trash in bird nests documents the Anthropocene epoch
What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...
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Remembering "The Bird of the Century," a Half-Century Later
In March of 1975, an extremely rare Ross's Gull was confirmed for the first time in the Lower 48. The sighting and the frenzy ...
Birds Face Weakened Protections Under Trump Move
The Interior Department is suspending 20 Biden-era legal opinions, including one leading to fines against energy companies if ...
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How the U.S. bird flu epidemic has taken flight, which pets are most at risk and what we can do
Where does our avian flu epidemic come from? Commercial, large-scale poultry farming and migrating birds squeezed into ...
Warning Over Microplastics in the Air We Breathe After Bird Lung Discovery
Birds are breathing in high levels of airborne microplastics into their lungs—and, likely, so are we, with unclear effects on ...
‘I wouldn’t recommend taking the challenge on yourself’: A vet shares what consider before you help a baby bird
It might feel like second nature to bring a fallen bird into the comfort of your home, but Dr. MacMillan advises against it.
Smoke detectors in the sky: Will wildfire affect bird behavior?
The ornithology curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County placed handfuls of feathers between two small ...
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When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies change faster than their feathers, scientists discover
More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ...
‘Conference of the Birds’ aims high, but struggles in flight
The allegory chronicles a group of birds, each representing a human flaw, who try to decide who should be their king.