Winter feeding helps birds to breed
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The bird lovers of northern Europe who put out winter food for thrushes, robins, great tits, finches and other species have won the seal of approval from science.
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Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals.
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People can halt the decline of many birds by making their gardens more wildlife-friendly, says a charity.
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By Richard Mize, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--So, it's still the dead of winter, but what have you got planned for your managed habitat patch this year?   My Bermuda grass is in pitiful shape where shadows fall. It needs help. The side yards are like wilderness areas.
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Introducing birdcinema.com, a YouTube for birdwatchers.
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By Steve Ford  Chill winds out of the northwest and frost on the windows in the morning don't exactly make fishermen think of spring.  But then I'm not most fishermen. The unusually warm winter we've been having has me champing at the bit earlier than ever. But it's not just that.
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Find out why breeding and raising chicks along the boulder-strewn Antarctic coast is no cakewalk for these small seabirds.
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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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Birder Mathew Tekulsky describes the bathing habits of birds, explaining the dependence of birds on water.
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A bird species new to science has been found by researchers on a remote island in the northern Philippines.
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By WHITNEY GOULD  A breeze rustles through basswoods and willows. Warblers and finches twitter; a woodpecker taps away. Beyond a fringe of tall grasses, a fish ripples the water.
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They're a marvel of nature, birds that survive in a climate as hot as the Mojave Desert yet adapt quite comfortably in the coldest region of America's coldest state. Ravens survive the brutal cold of Alaska's North Slope by caching food, scavenging scrap from oil fields, and apparently by telling time, showing up when humans are mostly likely to leave food unguarded.
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Several common species of North American birds have suffered drastic population declines since the arrival of the West Nile virus eight years ago, leaving rural and suburban areas quieter than they used to be and imposing ecological stresses on a variety of other animals and plants, a new study has...
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By Mary Perez, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 24--MOSS POINT -- Every once in a while, eagle hatchlings pop their heads out of the nest across the river from the Pascagoula River Audubon Center in Moss Point.  "I've got at least two babies," said Mark LaSalle, center director.
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MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica  - The first Adelie penguin chicks of the season -- black fluffballs small enough to hold in the hand -- started hatching this month, and the simple fact that there are more of them in the south and fewer of them further north is a sign of global warming, scientists say.
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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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Men have been responding with enthusiasm to this winterâs influx of fur.