birds

Sheriff’s Office investigators have warned Cook County residents not to get to close to the bird-life in the Des Plaines area after a 37-year-old caretaker was harried to death by a large swan. The man, who has been identified as Anthony Hensley, a married father of two, worked for...

An Indian man is believed to have been killed by a reluctant fighting cock. According to witnesses Singrai Soren was killed by his cockfighting rooster after it emerged victorious from the ring. In the brutal sport of cockfighting, attach razor blades to the legs of their birds – and...

In what at first seemed like the plot of an old Mel Brooks comedy, Saudi officials have caught, then later released a vulture that was tagged with a University of Tel-Aviv GPS. Later the whole affair took a more serious turn, when Saudi officials, began accusing the Israelis, of...

In this video two crows prove that brains can mean a lot more than brawn. The birds work as a team, perform flanking maneuvers and provoke the cats into fighting each other… and when the cats are all fought out and wanting to leave, they subject them to a...

An injured peregrine falcon that was found by a roadside in Guernsey was initially thought to have fallen victim to a cruel hunting method. It turns out that the falcon had simply made the mistake of messing with the wrong seagull. The falcon had been rendered flightless by an...