Bird Quotes

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

~ Jewish Proverb


Bird Facts

The Travel Industry Association of America notes, that of the pets traveling with their owners, dogs are the most common type of pet to take along (78%). Cats came in a distant second with 15%, while others report traveling withbirds (2%) and either a ferret, rabbit, or fish (3%).


Bird News

Bird News Network Provided by American Bird Conservancy
  • Conservation Victory For One of World's Deadliest Animals
    Conservationists are celebrating the establishment of a new nature reserve in Colombia that provides the first sanctuary for the endangered golden poison frog, an animal that also has the distinction of being possibly the world's deadliest animal.
  • New Map to Help Reduce Bird Mortality From Wind Development
    A new, interactive web-based map, created by American Bird Conservancy is now available, and has the potential to dramatically reduce bird impacts from wind turbines..
  • ABC and OSM Team Up to Enhance Forest Restoration and Conservation
    In a collaborative effort to increase and enhance migratory bird habitat restoration and forest reclamation, ABC and the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement signed a Memorandum of Understanding during a recent tree-planting event in eastern Kentucky.
  • BLM Takes Action on Bird Deaths from Mining Claim Markers
    The Bureau of Land Management, the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, and American Bird Conservancy have begun identifying and implementing solutions to solve a widespread and potentially enormous bird mortality threat that is associated with 3.4 million mining claims on public lands, mainly in the West. Official state birds from at least nine western states have so far been killed by deadly mining claim marker.
  • Reserve to Double in Size, Aiding Critically Endangered Parrot
    The critically endangered Fuertes's Parrot and eleven other globally threatened species of birds, mammals, and amphibians will receive greater protections thanks to a joint effort by Fundacion ProAves, World Land Trust-US, Robert Giles, Loro Parque Fundacion and American Bird Conservancy.

Science Daily: Bird News

ScienceDaily: Bird News
ScienceDaily: Bird News
  • Listening to chickens could improve poultry production
    Listening to squawks and other chicken "vocalizations" using digital signal processing techniques may help farmers better manage growing conditions, contributing to both healthier birds and more productive poultry operations.
  • Locating lice as they hitch-hike with birds for life
    Although chewing lice spend their entire lives as parasites on birds, it is difficult to predict patterns of lice distribution, new research reveals.
  • Bird color variations speed up evolution
    Researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage color forms within in the same population, evolve into new species faster than those with only one color form, confirming a 60-year-old evolution theory.
  • Less is more, for female cowbirds: Findings contradict sexual selection theory
    More modest male displays attract the females when it comes to brown-headed cowbirds, contrary to sexual selection theory, according to new research. While sexual selection theory predicts that females should find more flamboyant displays the most sexually attractive, the opposite holds true for brown-headed cowbirds, a small songbird common in North America.
  • Marine food chain becomes clearer with new revelations about prey distribution
    A new study has found that each step of the marine food chain is clearly controlled by the trophic level below it -- and the driving factor influencing that relationship is not the abundance of prey, but how that prey is distributed.
  • Mobs rule for great tit neighbors
    Great tits are more likely to join defensive mobs with birds in nearby nests that are 'familiar neighbours' rather than new arrivals, new research has found.
  • Rare glimpse into great blue heron nest
    In a first for technology and for bird watching, thousands of people watched live this weekend as a tiny Great Blue Heron emerged from an egg in between its father's gigantic feet. Viewers around the world are now able to follow the surprising lives of herons, including rare views still little known to science.
  • Antarctic albatross displays shift in breeding habits
    A new study of the wandering albatross -- one of the largest birds on Earth -- has shown that some of the birds are breeding earlier in the season compared with 30 years ago.

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