Formal Wear Penguins break into New Zealand sushi stall, againDW News - DW English New Zealand police have returned two blue penguins to their natural habitat after they refused to leave a sushi store in Wellington. The "waddling …
Aboriginal Canadians Hinterland Who's Who releases vignette on ravens in 6 Indigenous languagescbc.ca - Rhiannon Johnson Hinterland Who's Who, the series of iconic public service announcements about Canadian wildlife, has released a new video on the common raven …
Audubon Society 2019 Audubon photography awards winners – in picturesThe GuardianThe National Audubon Society is an American non-profit environmental organisation dedicated to conservation. It protects birds and their habitats throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education
Crows Canuck and Cassiar proud parents of little Gord, named after the late frontman of the Tragically Hipvancouversun.com - Gordon McIntyre Updated: July 14, 2019 Crow celebrity Canuck and his mate Cassiar had a little baby crow hatch at the end of May, but l’il Gord — named after the late frontman of the …
World News 'Something fishy': penguins detained by New Zealand police after sushi shop stakeoutThe Guardian - Charles Anderson in Nelson“Waddling vagrants” in the form of two little blue penguins have been released by police after they were detained for setting up home under a Wellington sushi outlet. Their cover was blown after a shop
Habitats The red-cockaded woodpecker is making a comebackMother Nature Network - Mary Jo DiLonardo Endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers were once common across the Southeast U.S. The mostly black-and-white birds made their homes in pine forests, …
Ravens White ravens, crows and fawns (oh my): Two more albino-like birds spotted in B.C.vancouversun.com - Randy Shore Two white ravens have hatched near Coombs on Vancouver Island, possibly siblings to a white raven spotted last year, or its offspring. Read More
Humans step in to translate for little blue penguin at Christchurch beachMother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick The world can be a scary place when you're young, It can be even scarier when you're a young little blue penguin, the tiniest of the penguin …
Scottish doctors prescribe bird-watching, walking and other 'nature prescriptions'Mother Nature Network - Mary Jo DiLonardo Mother Nature offers amazing benefits. A stroll in the fresh air can clear your head, relax your body and just make you feel better. Now doctors in …
10 stunning hummingbirds of EcuadorMother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick More than 100 species of the tiny birds thrive in the country. Hummingbirds are much-beloved birds. Their unique beaks, rapid wingbeats and flitting …
Play buttonLiving Rooms These living rooms for birds have portraits, books, flowers ... and a hidden cameraMother Nature Network - Christian Cotroneo It may not look like much from the outside, but the little nesting box Kate MacRae built in her English garden boasts a world of creature …
Play buttonChicago, IL Light pollution threatens migrating birds, especially if they tweet while flyingMother Nature Network - Russell McLendon Every spring and fall, billions of migratory birds slip through the night sky as they shuttle between their winter and summer ranges. Migrating at …
Play buttonScience Cockatoo choreographs his own dance moves, researchers believeThe Guardian - Ian Sample Science editorWhen Snowball the sulphur-crested cockatoo revealed his first dance moves a decade ago he became an instant sensation. The foot-tapping, head-bobbing bird boogied his way on to TV talkshows and commercials
Hummingbirds 11 magnificent migratory birdsMother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick About 40 percent of the world's birds migrate in some fashion, whether it's a short flight to a warmer locale or a long and arduous trek. Like other …
Bird Photo Booth captures birds at their finestMother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick We do all sorts of things to attract birds to our yards — from feeders to the right kinds of plants. And while we may do this to support birds and …
Extinction These 8 bird species are the first to be declared extinct this decadeMother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick The rainforests of South America are a little lonelier now, with the highly likely or confirmed extinction of eight bird species. According to a …
Easy homemade suet cakes for backyard birdsMother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick Bird feed is all well and good, but sometimes you want to give the backyard birds a different treat or attract a type of bird to your …
Politics (Rep. of Ireland) Irish bird population in ‘dramatic’ decline, Oireachtas committee to hearirishtimes.com - Jack Horgan-Jones Irish bird populations are in “dramatic” decline, with the loss of habitats decimating populations and putting the state’s biodiversity at risk, an …
Climbing Climbing routes closed on Stawamus Chief due to peregrine falcon nestcbc.ca - Alex Migdal Park officials have closed climbing routes on a popular rock wall near Squamish, B.C., so that climbers stay clear of a peregrine falcon …
Science First blue feathers found on a fossilized birdNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoAn ancient relative of today’s rollers with a deep blue hue adds to our understanding of nature’s prehistoric palette. Somewhere over the rainbow 48 million years ago, a happy little blue bird flew—until
Cameroon A hospital for the African grey parrotDW News - DW English At the Limbe Wildlife Centre in Cameroon, injured birds are treated and kept until they are strong enough to be released back into the wild. It is an …
Vancouver Island It's for the birds: Vancouver Island bird rescue society opens new visitor centrecbc.ca - CBC News · After patching up injured animals since 1995, a Comox Valley rehabilitation facility is opening a visitor centre so people can learn more about the …
Fat, flightless kakapo hit by fungal infectionDW News - DW English Just six weeks ago, New Zealand scientists were celebrating a successful breeding season. Now, they are facing the prospect of widespread deaths due …
Bowland hen harrier chicks give 'hope for future'bbc.co.uk The hatching of hen harrier chicks at nests on a private estate for the second year running "gives hope for the future", the RSPB has said.
How A Bird Became Flightless Through Evolution — TwiceNPR - Irina ZhorovMore than 100,000 years ago, a bird flew from Madagascar to an island chain, where it lost the ability to fly. The seas rose and then fell and the bird flew back, only to become flightless again. To another
Darwin’s finches sing out-of-tune call after parasites deform beaksThe Guardian - Ian Sample Science editorTree finches made famous by Charles Darwin’s visit to the Galápagos islands in the 19th century have gone out of tune because of parasitic infections that damage the birds’ beaks and nostrils. Researchers
Bird watchers worried about apparent lack of birds around Foam Lakectvnews.ca - Video Journalist Shelley Thoen-Chaykoski has been a bird-watcher her entire life. She is worried about what she believes is a lack of birds. “This is probably the …
Spring birding on Out Skerriesbirdguides.com After a gruelling 26 hours of travel from Yorkshire, we arrived on the Isle of Bruray, Out Skerries, on 17 May. We were immediately accompanied by …
