Birds & Bird Care

If finding information about birds has got your feathers ruffled, squawk no longer. Hop up on your perch and find information about birds and bird care. Crack open a few seeds while you read about the various breeds of birds in our world. Caring for your fine feathered friend doesn't require wings and a prayer.
 
Welcoming a Bird into Your Family
Just like you and I, the bird’s environment and its social interactions with others are keys to normal development. Getting...
Are Ground Nesting Birds Preying on Your Mind?
Removing unwanted birds by using Falconry Response has long been a subject for debate but towns and cities stand by this...
Different Types of Birds
If you just can’t get enough of our feathered friends, read on to know about some different types of birds found across the...
A Bird Made of Sulphur
For some a pest and for others a great friend, the The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is a big parrot with the most beautiful...
Bird Identification: Wild Bird Species Identification
Bird watching and identification is a great hobby. Here are a few birds along with their characteristic identification marks.
Bird Watching
Bird watching is fascinating, discover a new challenging hobby!
How to Make a Bird Feeder?
If you have decided you wish to have your own bird feeder in the backyard and have often wondered how to make one, then...
Bluebird House Plans
Read on to know more about the Bluebirds and the Bluebird houses that you can build in your backyard…
Unique Decorative Birdhouses
Birdhouses have gone beyond the plain ordinary wooden designs. There are a whole bunch of creative people who devise new...
Facts About Hummingbirds
Facts about Hummingbirds, the world's smallest bird.
How To Select The Right Bird As Your Pet
While selecting a Cockatiel as their pet many take the colorful plumage, and size into consideration. Unlike other pets,...
How To Make Your Cockatoo A Great Companion Bird
A cockatoo is a gregarious creature and certain aspects of its psyche are hard wired. The need for companionship,affection...
Hummingbirds and HummZingers
Guidelines for providing the proper backyard environment for hummingbirds. Recommendations for hummingbird feeders and...
Spring is for the Birds! Turn Your Backyard into a Sanctuary
Spring is the perfect time to enjoy the awakenings of colorful birds and butterflies. Here are some helpful hints to turn...
Robot Twitcher to Scan Skies for Rare Bird
The world's first robot twitcher has joined the hunt for the ivory-billed woodpecker. The device's inventors hope it will...
The Cassowary Bird
The Cassowary Bird is known as the Gardener of the Rain Forest. This unique bird has been around since the long-gone days...
Chelsea Owner's Parrot to Do Bird Over Flu Fears
An exotic parrot belonging to Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich will have to be caged and tested for bird flu...
Birds of a Feather
Ten multiple choice trivia questions about birds
Biologists Use Bird Recording to Prove a Point
An ornithological dispute over the fate of a woodpecker thought to be extinct has been solved after experts produced...
Arctic Pollution Blamed on Seabirds
Most of the human-made contaminants found in the pristine high Arctic were dumped there in the traditional way by breeding...
US Imposes Controls on a New Security Threat - Birdwatchers
US security agents have come up with a new target for increased scrutiny in their battle against terrorism: birdwatchers....
How Pigs Could Be Launchpad for Bird Flu Pandemic
The frustrating search to unravel the bird flu sweeping south-east Asia in the hope of estimating the likelihood of a human...
Zoo's 'gay' Penguins Give Females the Bird
They are called Charley, Left-Arrow, Diagonal-Line and Six-Point. The four female penguins at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany...
France Defies Eu to Continue Force-feeding Birds for Foie Gras
The French agriculture ministry has infuriated animal welfare organisations by defending that bastion of Gallic culinary...
The Elephant Bird
The Elephant Bird is considered to be the biggest bird that has walked the face of this earth. It is considered to be the...
It Can't Fly and Sounds Like a Trumpet, But New Bird Delights Ornithologists
The mystery bird was certainly distinctive: dark brown, red bill, red legs, call like a trumpet, pretty hopeless at flying....
Bird Flu Triggers Cape Ostrich Cull
South Africa will today begin culling some 30,000 ostriches to control an outbreak of avian flu in the Eastern Cape. Police...
Extinction Threat to More Than 1,000 Bird Species
More than 1,000 bird species face extinction because of an alarming and accelerating loss of biodiversity, a study warns...
Arsenic May Be Killing Canberra Birds
The currawongs and magpies who have lived at the Parliament House grounds in Canberra for years have almost all disappeared...
America Hopes to Cut Toll of 50m Migrating Birds Killed By Phone Masts
A federal investigation has been launched into the plight of up to 50 million migratory birds killed each year by mobile...
Payments to Owners of Killed Birds Denounced
Government officials and animal advocates recently have expressed objections to compensation given by the United States...
Oil Spill Causes More Than 2,500 Birds to Die
Oil spilled from a Chinese freighter after the ship collided with a Polish vessel in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden...
Killer doing bird after dead cockatoo sings
The old slang expression for informing to the police has traditionally been to "sing like a canary." Now the...
First it was bigfoot, now it's big bird
It may be a bird. It almost certainly isn't a plane. All that is known for sure is that several people have reported seeing...
Bird Watching and Bird Watching Tours
When it comes to hobbies, bird watching is both an educational and enjoyable activity for many outdoor enthusiasts...
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