Birds such as crows and ravens may have a bad rap thanks to superstitions and negative portrayals in popular culture, but they offer a lot more than fodder for scary stories. In fact, they're ...

If you’re a bird and you’re trying to be taken seriously, it can’t be easy to be a cuckoo. In an animal grouping that includes the golden eagle, the sharp-shinned hawk and the great crested heron, ...

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PROSSER, Wash. - In the future, cameras could spot blackbirds feeding on grapes in a vineyard and launch drones to drive off the avian irritants, then return to watch for the next invading flock. All ...

This avian affiliation comes much to the chagrin of merchants and customers, who are disappointed that the city s plan to erect an ominous 18-inch owl to scare pesky birds away seems to have backfired ...

BOSTON -- Birds like those believed to have crippled a US Airways jetliner in New York have been a danger to aviation since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright, so airports use everything from hawks ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Andy Warner established Black River Farms Vineyard & Winery in 2010. It made sense. "One thing led to another, I liked wine, drank wine, made a little bit of wine, and a hobby went ...

Three owls in the Peconic area that recently died of a highly virulent type of bird flu are the latest Long Island cases of a disease that has poultry farmers on edge. “It’s very scary,” said Wayne ...