When the bird feeder is empty, it falls to me to fill it. The birds never express gratitude. They just eat and eat and eat. I walk across my yard to the feeder. About ten feet away, I stop because there is a house finch on the feeder enjoying his lunch of sunflower seeds. There […]
Various animals, some insects and a few recidivist restaurants lowlight this week’s Sick and Shut Down List of restaurants in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Palm Beach metropolitan area. Quick reminders: This list covers restaurants closed by inspection, and state inspectors do the inspecting. We don’t choose where they go or what they do. We don’t list every […]
Your backyard birds are always hungry. Here are a few ideas from your pantry that don’t involve bird seed. You can feed foods that are high in fat. Food at the bird feeder can attract animals other than the wild birds, so place the feeder close enough that you can watch the birds and monitor the feeder […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for a Montana man who failed to show up for an initial court appearance on charges of killing thousands of birds, including bald and golden eagles. A second defendant pleaded not guilty. The two men, working with others, killed about 3,600 birds on […]
African raptors that hunt during the day face an extinction crisis, with populations decreasing among dozens of species of birds of prey, researchers said in a study published Thursday. Researchers used data from the last 40 years to analyze the populations of 42 of the country’s 106 raptor species, they wrote in the journal Nature […]
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds? Caiden S., age 9, Wylie, Texas Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. […]
A border guard with an alias Breeze on the Zaporizhzhia front has installed a camera on an anti-drone gun and filmed the downing of three Russian drones. Source: the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine on the website and on social media Quote: “Russian FPV-drones have once again attacked our positions on the Zaporizhzhia front. […]
Have you ever wondered how many birds make Southwest Florida home, or visit for a winter pit stop? The bird lovers of Manatee County Audubon Society did their best to answer that question on Dec. 16, when they took part in the National Audubon Society’s 124th Christmas Bird Count. The results: The Bradenton Circle birder […]
While South Florida slept on any given night this fall, so many birds migrated overhead that they were regularly visible on weather radar. More than half of America’s birds make the journey to Latin America and the Caribbean and back each year, everything from tiny hummingbirds to globetrotting shorebirds, powerful peregrine falcons to jewel-colored warblers […]
Migration can be a hazardous time for the billions of birds that make the journey each spring and fall, with thousands, if not millions, dying along the way after colliding with windows. As Catrin Einhorn documented for The New York Times, however, “skyscrapers aren’t the leading culprit” in these collision deaths. “Homes and low-rise buildings […]
A pair of eagle poachers in Montana killed roughly 3,600 birds to sell tails and wings on the black market, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment last week. In the indictment handed up in Montana by the U.S. Department of Justice, Simon Paul and Travis John Branson are accused of killing thousands of birds, including […]
Flocks of black birds have been spotted in backyards and parks over the past few weeks in the Triangle, causing many of us to do a double take when we leave our homes or pass a large, grassy field. Some believe these flocks signal changes in certain weather. But our expert at the Cornell Lab […]