Police, firefighters and a wildlife biologist stood under the tree. Reaching the tangled osprey took equipment none of them had brought with them.
Birds run a body temperature near 104 °F and cannot sweat, so heat builds fast. Where to move the cage, how to use fans and ice, and the signs to act on.
BirdCast’s fall Lights Out window opened August 15. Cornell and ABC say most strikes happen in daylight, and hundreds of millions occur at ordinary homes.
Poppy swore and tore at the wallpaper. The bird handed back to Freda Ireland four weeks later sang Twinkle Twinkle, and someone 70km away was watching.
Cockatiel screaming usually starts as contact calling, and the obvious responses reward it. What it means at dawn, when it signals illness, what to reward.
Alameda police could not reach a pelican snarled in fishing line and hooks. One of the boys watching from the dock went into the water after it.
A budgie molt runs symmetrically, left and right together. Patchy loss, clubbed feathers or a fledgling that never feathers properly mean something else.
Harri had been gone eleven days when a captain three days out of Australia noticed a pink and grey bird sunning itself on deck. Her family had given up.
Escaped birds land high and close, and clipped wings do not keep them home. The search order that works, and who to call before the first day is out.
Boo had seen only shadows for about ten years. A veterinary team in Raleigh gave the 40-year-old cockatoo his sight back, and a camera was running.