New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife have said major bird breeding events are being observed across the Macquarie Marshes, between Dubbo and Bourke, and the Gwydir wetlands, near Moree after two seasons of widespread rainfall in Australia. Ecologist David Smith has said that at present the outback is full of incredible sights. “There’s a bit…
Photographer Snaps Stunning Photos of Male Purple-Rumped Sunbird Hunting Nectar From Banana Flower Petals
Indian photographer Rajkumar Lahiri, 25, from Kolkata, was on a mission to capture on camera what has been highly coveted by bird photographers in the region of West Bengal of late. Several avid avian snapping locals have managed to win, or place highly in, prestigious international bird photography competitions for capturing one peculiar yet beautiful behavior…
Artist Crafts Meticulously Cut Paper Birds So Realistic They Look Like They’re About to Fly Away
Applying scissors to paper, wildlife artist Niharika Rajput makes meticulous cuts to produce handfuls of tiny paper feathers for one of her intricate paper bird sculptures. Completing one of these avian creations can take weeks or even months, but the finished products are so lifelike they’ve been mistaken for taxidermy birds. The 30-year-old artist from…
Bird Photographer Of The Year 2021 Releases Award Winners—Showing Birds Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
They flock to visit exotic lotus ponds to take extravagant baths in India. They frolic upon the ice shelves in the extreme cold of the Antarctic southern hemisphere. They are your neighbors coming to visit you, wet their whistles, and sing sweetly to you in your own backyard. They are our dear feathered friends, birds,…
VIDEO: Woman Saved a Baby Java Sparrow Found On The Ground; Now He Visits To Sing To Her
A fellow named Dave on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, stumbled across a tiny creature crawling in the wet grass in 2019—it was a delicate, helpless baby bird. Dave looked for a nest or mother bird but could find neither. Not knowing what to do, he put the creature in his pocket to keep it…
Life Lessons From the Birds
I fell in love with birds when I took care of a conure (small parrot) for a friend while she was on vacation. Until that point, I thought birds were pretty to look at and sometimes lovely to listen to, but I didn’t believe they could exhibit much personality. I was happily mistaken. I have…
Bird Counting Offers a Chance to Connect With Nature
Australia’s peak body for birds is asking for Australians to count birds in their backyards for a week in one of the country’s biggest citizen science events. The activity will help gather valuable information about the nation’s birdlife from backyards where ecologists usually wouldn’t be able to observe. “As well as helping ecologists track trends,…
Artist Upcycles Old Silverware, Scrap Metal Into Feathered Friends and Other Incredible Animals
An artist who uses found objects to create masterpieces makes clunky scrap metal look as light as a feather. It takes years for South Carolina artist Matt Wilson, 37, to gather the medium he works in—old silverware and other metal junk, as well as driftwood and natural materials—which he combines to create animals that seem…
Texas Prairie Chicken With Bright-Orange Air Sacs Once on Verge of Extinction Rebounds: Survey
Sporting bright-orange inflatable air sacs, the Attwater’s prairie chicken has long been a feature of the Texas and Louisiana landscapes. Their numbers were once so plentiful that cowboys relied upon them for fresh meat while herding cattle far from the ranch. With the introduction of agriculture, woody species invasion, and human settlement, though, habitat loss…
Wild Bird ‘Toys’ That Keep Birds Coming Back
A dome-shaped, UFO-look-alike object sends gentle ripples through the water in a birdbath located on the side yard of the nature shop Wild Birds Unlimited at busy MacArthur Boulevard in Springfield, Illinois. The solar powered “water wiggler,” as the water feature in the middle of the birdbath is called, aims to agitate the water just…
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