‘Everybody takes the subway,’ even this Boston pigeon

Social media users are praising a well-behaved bird as a "legend" for its subway manners — and it's not the first pigeon to ...
The Washington Post

North American birds are dying off faster. It signals a human crisis, too.

With every passing year, the springtime chorus grows quieter. There are fewer song sparrows cheeping amid the shrubs and grasses. The high-pitched trill of the indigo bunting is muted. Even the ...
The New York Times

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

Scientists studying data collected over more than three decades found accelerating losses. Their research offers clues about the causes. By Catrin Einhorn Birds in the United States are not only ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Heartland’ Review: When Larry Bird Took Flight

More than three decades after his final game—a pain-wracked cameo in the United States’s gold-medal win over Croatia in the 1992 Olympics—Larry Bird retains a mythopoeic quality. Michael Jordan and ...
ucdavis.edu

Bird Flight Research Advances Drone Technology and Wild Raptor Care

An unassuming metal barn erected recently at the southern edge of the University of California, Davis campus houses some advanced video technology for a uniquely UC Davis project. Leveraging UC Davis’ ...
Rolling Stone

Larry Bird Is One of the NBA’s All-Time Greats. He Nearly Threw It All Away

Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...
Nature

Urban Birds

Counting bird species is no longer enough. To truly understand and support avian urban biodiversity, we must look beyond simple species richness to capture the functional roles, evolutionary histories ...
AOL

Train station using birds of prey to deter pigeons

Birds of prey are being used to deter pigeons from a city's main train station. A trained hawk and falcon have recently been patrolling Chelmsford railway station with a professional falconer, in the ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Bird flu may be why over 1,000 geese died in NJ. How Pa., Del. are fighting back

Geese are reportedly dying in large numbers throughout the state of New Jersey causing a new concern over bird flu. According to New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, over 1,100 dead or ...
NJ.com

Bird flu suspected as dead geese are found at multiple parks across New Jersey, officials say

Large numbers of dead or dying geese have been found at parks across New Jersey in recent days. No cause was confirmed, but the Monmouth County Park System said in a statement on Tuesday that Avian ...
AOL

Bee, bug and bird homes created at train stations

Bee hotels and habitats for bugs have been installed at train stations including in Lingfield, Surrey Habitats for bees, birds and bugs have been installed at more railway stations across the South ...