by News | Nov 18, 2018 | Birdie Girl
MNN Exclusive Film / For many of us, spring is an event that arrives quietly. The emergence of bulbs, the subtle shift towards longer days, the welcome return of warm morning breezes. For others, however, spring is announced in a thunderous chorus of hundreds of...
by News | Nov 10, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Written by : Jasmina Wiemann, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Mark A. Norell / Yale University / October 2018 A new study says the colors found in modern birds’ eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs. A new study says the...
by News | Oct 16, 2018 | Birdie Girl, Hummingbirds
Written by Kaitlin Stainbrook / Colorful rufous hummingbirds, like this male, have amazing memories. They often seek out and stop at the same feeders and flowers during their annual migration routes. If you reside in a northwestern state, like Washington or Oregon,...
by News | Sep 27, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Author: Annie Dell’Aria / In 1957, a 21-year-old art school graduate named Don Featherstone created his second major design for the Massachusetts-based lawn and garden decoration manufacturer Union Products: a three-dimensional plastic pink flamingo propped up...
by News | Sep 13, 2018 | Birdie Girl
By Gustave Axelson / All About Birds / Early one morning last January, I drank Colombian coffee the Colombian way—tinto, or straight dark. I sipped my tinto while sitting on a Spanish colonial veranda at Finca Los Arrayanes, a fourth-generation coffee farm and hotel...
by News | Aug 31, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Written By Yonette Joseph / August 2018 / LONDON — In a feat attributed to the recent heat wave that swept across Europe, rare Andean flamingos at a wetlands reserve in Britain have laid eggs for the first time in 15 years. The exotic birds are “fickle breeders” and...
