H.K. destroys farm poultry amid cull to curb bird flu
Asian Political News - May 28, 2001
HONG KONG, May 21 Kyodo Hong Kong began destroying about 1.06 million chickens and other poultry in farms across the territory on Monday as the slaughter of birds continued for the fourth day to stop the spread of a new strain of avian influenza. The government said birds, including chick... (Read More)

Don't be chicken: Squab flies as chic menu item
Nation's Restaurant News - May 21, 2001, by Bret Thorn
If you ask most Americans what kind of poultry they like to eat, the first thing they'd probably say is chicken. Perhaps the last thing they'd say would be pigeon. But at a wholesale price of about $8 for a dressed, 1-pound bird, squab, which is a polite way of saying pigeon, commands a hefty p... (Read More)

A Tale of Two Reputations - scientific contributions of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud
Natural History - February 1, 2001, by Jared Diamond
Why we revere Darwin and give Freud a hard time We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y wou... (Read More)

Singing in the Brain
Natural History - October 1, 2000, by Annette Heist
Hummingbirds don't just hum--they sing. And they learn the tunes from one another. The fact that humans learn to talk by listening to and imitating other people seems obvious. If speech were built in, as breathing and swallowing are, we would all speak the same language, free of dialect, and li... (Read More)

Messy pigeons chased away
Engineer's Digest - September 1, 2000
Char-Broil in Columbus, Ga., a manufacturer of gas grills for retailers worldwide, had a big problem when pigeons decided the company's warehouse was the perfect place to nest. "They were nesting throughout our 1.2 million square feet of warehouse and factory space for years," says Don Kellett, F... (Read More)

Who's Looking?
Store Equipment & Design - July 1, 2000
Pigeons and other pests watch out. A life-size predator decoy owl is on the market featuring 44-inch, patented flapping wings that lift and fall as the head and airfoil body move in the wind. The Prowler Owl, with its distinctive markings, is the most realistic model on the market, according to B... (Read More)

Top Birds Stay Slim And Other Avian News - Brief Article
National Wildlife - June 1, 2000
The Right Eye Gets the Worm The results are in from Australian researchers curious about why birds tend to use one eye at a time. In a study of European starlings, the scientists concluded the birds' left eyes hold more single-cone cells, and their right eyes hold more double-cone cells. That p... (Read More)

Falcon Comeback - Peregrine fund breeding project's success - Brief Article
Science World - April 10, 2000
The American peregrine falcon may be nature's most audacious sky hunter. The bird dives faster than 320 kilometers (200 miles) per hour to strike flying prey with razor-sharp talons, swooping to grab its plunging meal in midair. But by 1970, the falcon's dazzling hunting skills were a rare sigh... (Read More)