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Birds: The Life of Teen-Agers

In the hybrid short film “Birds,” the director Katherine Propper intercuts reflective vignettes of teen-agers in Austin, ...
It’s the scariest part of Alfred Hitchcock’s suspenseful 1963 classic “The Birds.” The movie’s star, Tippi Hedren, has ...
Rovio announced that its popular Angry Birds 2 game will hold a limited-time in-game community event that brings back the iconic Angry Birds Space biome. If this made you travel back in time by a ...
Across several national parks in the Sierra Nevada, researchers found that the populations of some bird species grew rapidly after fires and remained higher even decades later. Scientists already knew ...
Each winter, the fastest alpine ski racers from around the world descend upon Beaver Creek for the Stifel Birds of Prey World Cup ski races. This year, Beaver Creek will host four days of ski races, ...
Bird migration hit a record high this week, and Southeast Texas was right in the flight path. On the night of Oct. 8, more than 1.25 billion birds were recorded flying south across the U.S., according ...
Just four minutes of darkness was enough to confuse dozens of species of birds. As the April 2024 solar eclipse crossed North America, humans weren't the only ones affected by the dimming of the ...
Tree swallows in polluted U.S. regions are accumulating high levels of “forever chemicals.” These durable pollutants, used in firefighting foams and consumer products, are found everywhere from soil ...
I just cleaned out and filled a couple of birdfeeders to help my migrating backyard buddies fuel up for their long journeys south. And I’ll keep it well-stocked with high-energy seed mix throughout ...
Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team ...
Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...
Journal Editorial Report: But what can the federal government do to bring home prices down? Michael Colosi wants to build a home on his property in Charlotte County, Fla. But because the U.S. Fish and ...