N.J. Cops Find Beheaded Chickens, Birds
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PERTH AMBOY, N.J. - Seven beheaded animals - three chickens, three pigeons and a fish - were discovered Tuesday on a central New Jersey beach. Police are investigating the killings and say they have no suspects. The dead animals were found around 11:30 a.m.
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SEOUL, Feb. 10 -- South Korean quarantine officials began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of domestic birds after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in a province near the South Korean capital, the Agriculture Ministry said Saturday.
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A deadly strain of bird flu blamed  for 27 deaths in Asia this year has been found in two dead  chickens in Malaysia, a government official said on Thursday.
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - Backyard butchers and some noisy chickens have led officials in this central Iowa town to ban live poultry in residential areas. "Some people were raising the chickens, then butchering them for dinner," Police Chief Lon Walker said. "The other thing was noise.
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Indonesia claimed a major victory in the fight against bird flu Thursday, saying the heart of the capital had been cleared of backyard fowl and that residents elsewhere were handing in chickens for slaughter. But poultry could still be seen roaming freely in suburban neighborhoods and some people hid pet birds in their homes, raising doubts the campaign would prevent further human deaths in the country hardest-hit by the virus.
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NEW YORK - A hawk down in midtown Manhattan? Another bird of prey grounded across town? A lamb on the lam in the Bronx? True. All in one day. The series of animal adventures began around 10 a.m. Wednesday when a former parks commissioner reported spotting a hawk that had crash landed.
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BAIJI, Iraq  - The decapitated bodies of three  men, their heads strapped to their backs, were found dumped in  nylon bags by a roadside north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi  police and U.S. officials said.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba  - Police in Regina,  Saskatchewan, said on Monday they are searching for fans who  hurled eggs and dumped manure at the home of a Canadian  Football League player who missed a critical kick in a  semifinal game on Sunday.
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The bodies of four women lying face down in several inches of water were discovered yesterday afternoon in a ditch near Atlantic City, the Atlantic County prosecutorÂs office said.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Animal control officers found more than 80 birds inside a home filled with bird droppings and have ordered the owner to find new homes for them...
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Turkeys are being slaughtered and processed again at the Bernard Matthews farm where bird flu was discovered.
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Health and veterinary workers in Bangladesh have culled nearly 25,000 fowls after bird flu was confirmed at three poultry farms in the country, officials said on Thursday.
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Intruders decapitated three flamingos and strangled a fourth in a grisly attack at Frankfurt's zoo, officials said Tuesday.
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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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Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal begin investigating the death of thousands of poultry birds.
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They have dozens of bone fragments. They have a hatchet. They have a man in jail who claims to have killed seven men and scattered their remains across his rural property.
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The decapitated bodies of three men, their heads strapped to their backs and the corpses put in nylon bags, were found dumped by a roadside north of Baghdad Wednesday, Iraqi police and U.S. officials said.