Bird
28 Oct 2022
The world's richest man Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, and tweeted: "The bird is freed".
22 Jun 2021
When 80-year-old Xavier Bouget goes for a ride on his bicycle, tinkers in his workshop, waters his garden or sits down to eat a biscuit, he has a constant companion: a white female pigeon called Blanchon.
Bouget, a retiree from the northwest French region of Brittany, befriended the bird when it was a chick and now it tags along with him everywhere, sitting on his shoulder or walking along beside him.
22 Sep 2019
A new paper signals an ecological crisis, and humans are to blame. There are far fewer birds today than in the 1970s, thanks largely to habitat destruction.
13 Jul 2019
Dancing Bird: Cockatoo Snowball learned 14 dance moves on his own, researchers find.
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