For Peregrine Pair, Noisy Perch is Peachy
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By Doug Smeath Deseret Morning News  As downtown Salt Lake City's human inhabitants prepare themselves for at least four years of City Creek Center construction, another kind of resident appears willing to brave the noise and the dust.
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WARROAD, Minn. - It might have seemed like the birds were fighting back against a Duluth hunter on a recent trip to far northern Minnesota...
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NEW YORK - A hawk down in midtown Manhattan? Another bird of prey grounded across town? A sheep loose in the Bronx? It wasn't shear fantasy. The odd series of animal adventures began 10 a.m.
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Fish and Wildlife has made a recommendation for a small bird that stirs up big controversy. A battle over the protection of the sage grouse rages on between the nationâs energy industry and conservationists.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--RALEIGH -- An owl hooted. A goldfinch warbled. And a gaggle of City Council members, city officials and environmentalists wandered across the pasture at Horseshoe Farm Park in northeast Raleigh last week.
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Dog-walking could be having a dramatic impact on local bird life, a study suggests.
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EUGENE, Ore. - Saws buzz and carpenters hammer nails, set up ladders and run an air generator. Al doesn't give a hoot. The brownish Western screech-owl showed up at Laura Fenimore's house as she began adding what will be her new great room.
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By WES SMALLING, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS  ANIMALS  If you leave your hummingbird feeder or your pet's food dish out at night, you might be awakened at 3 a.m. by a grumpy old bear rummaging through your backyard.
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Insect-eating mammals and mosquitos prosper but swallows head south early.
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By Amy S. Rosenberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Dec. 13--VENTNOR, N.J. -- Only in winter do seagulls approach gracefulness. But one recent morning, graceful was what they were, no trace of the slovenly bullies who hover in summer looking to snatch the sandwich out of your hands.
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By Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Sep. 25--The presence of a diminutive insect in the state has forestry officials on high alert.
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Raucous squawking erupts from cages filled with dozens of parrots &#151; a hopeful sound from a species on the brink of extinction. The last chance of survival for the Puerto Rican parrot may lie in forest aviaries where these captive birds began their nesting in January under close observation.
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By Pete Zimowsky, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 21--Yip. Yip. Yip. Howl. It's nice to be serenaded to sleep by coyotes.
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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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Homing pigeons carry out their long-range navigational feat thanks to tiny magnetic particles in their upper beaks, scientists confirm.
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Antarctic birds returning to a nesting colony after feeding at sea sniff out their mates, literally. Researchers studying the behavior of birds called Antarctic prions found the musky-smelling birds were able to discern the scent of their mates.
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OISTINS, Barbados -- Some people in this self-proclaimed Land of the Flying Fish now concede that it might have been unwise to make a wandering species the nation's mascot.