Bird Steals Rubber From Windshield Wipers
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MUNCY, Pa. - Dozens of windshield wipers on vehicles have been damaged or just plain stolen over the past few weeks. Each time however, the culprit manages to take flight, literally.  Television reports blame a crow or raven for ripping the rubber right off the blades at an industrial park.
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Birds living in cities are performing a form of "avian rap" to counter urban noise, a study suggests.
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Waste center hopes to get rid of debris where water collects and mosquitoes tend to breed. By Diana Lamirand. Recycling junk tires may take a bite out of the local mosquito population.
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Shhh. Don&#39;t tell anyone, but I have a bird bath in my back yard. Worse, it&#39;s filled with water. Standing water, if you know what I mean.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. - Ronald Leung thought he would never see his beloved 1956 Ford Thunderbird again after it was stolen from his auto-repair shop in downtown Palo Alto in 1976.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Animal rescue workers have released about 100 birds that were treated for shock and concussions after crashing into an office building's windows last week.  The birds, cedar waxwings, were released Tuesday at the Honeywell wildlife refuge near Irmo.
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Chickadees, cardinals and titmice are common visitors to a snowy bird feeder. But hummingbirds? That's what Janet Allen saw last year in her yard in suburban Syracuse. For several days in dreary November, a young ruby-throated hummingbird shivered on a snow-laced feeder, sipping sugar water when it should have been flitting among tropical blossoms in sunny Mexico.
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Do not approach a 'very large bird' called Emmy One of the world's largest birds, a Ruppell's Griffin Vulture called Emmy, is on the loose in Bedfordshire after escaping from the English School of Falconry on Wednesday.â¦
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--MOSS POINT -- Egrets wheeling in the sky and pelicans foraging in Bennett Bayou on Friday morning incited a smile from Judy Steckler. "Isn't that a beautiful sight?" she said.
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By Mallory, Matthew J  I remember a day long ago when we could leave our vehicle doors unlocked, windows down, and wallet on the seat. Well OK, maybe not your wallet, but there was a day when neighbors watched out for each other like family.
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FLORENCE, Sep 5 (IPS) - In several towns across Italy, forced windscreen  wiping is becoming a criminal offence.
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PATRAS, Greece (BBC News) - A legal battle is under way here over a parrot that is facing a $650 parking ticket.  The local council says his perch is illegally parked and is obstructing drivers because it partially blocks a metered parking space. Coco the parrot's owner, Lambros Michalopoulos, says the bird will die if it has to move back inside.  Neither side is backing down so now the dispute is going to the courts. Patras's Deputy Mayor Spiros Demartinos is embarrassed that Coco's plight is attracting international attention.
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By Melissa Manware, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 17--It all started when someone stole her five-year-old Hyundai Elantra.   She was mad because the thief totaled it and she didn't have comprehensive insurance.
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - A mayoral candidate known for walking around town with a parrot on his shoulder has been charged with burglary, accused of stealing an acquaintance's Dirt Devil vacuum. The bird apparently gave him away.
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[World News]: Washington, Nov 27 : Scientist have always wondered how pigeons manage to be such good navigators and have a &#39;nose for the north&#39; and now a new study has suggested that it is because they have small magnetic particles in their beaks, which
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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - A school bus driver suffered cuts Tuesday when a wild turkey crashed through the windshield of her bus on Interstate 84. The bus was carrying 36 fifth graders and four adults on a field trip from Windham when the bus struck the bird at about 9:35 a.m., state police said.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but other birds of prey are in trouble.