Wow. This article illustrates the law of unintended consequences. Who would have thought that a benign hot-air balloon would become a chicken’s mortal enemy?
Abbi Vincent-Lloyd said she lost 30 hens on days when balloons were flying low over her Herefordshire farm.
She claimed the stress of seeing the enormous balloons overhead [...]
A second, normal-sized egg popped out of a giant egg laid by a chicken raised at a high school in Shiga Prefecture, a school official said Saturday after breaking open the shell. The huge egg, which was 8.1 centimeters high and weighed 158 grams, was laid at the Yokaichi Minami High School in the city [...]
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When Chicago birders flocked to Montrose Beach this week for a glimpse of two strange birds not often seen in these parts, they got something far more: a bloody death scene and a queasy feeling they might be partly to blame.
The species — a burrowing owl and a Brant goose — were spotted about [...]
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These improbable pictures were taken at an exotic bird farm in Germany and show the extraordinary moment when a one-year-old pelican body-searched a dog in search for a missing meal.
Captured by the owner of the bird farm, Roland Adam, they show how Petri the Pelican took exception to the theft of its meal.
“I was preparing [...]
If you regularly buy “cage free” eggs instead of the conventional kind, you’re off to a good start in supporting the welfare of farm animals, according to the World Society for the Protection of Animals. The same goes for buying “free range” poultry and “grass fed” dairy and meat, although those products may be harder [...]
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Maybe there really isn’t anything that you can’t buy online.
Endangered animals, including chimps, marmosets and leopard cubs, are being bought and sold online, according to a new report.
Over six one-week observation periods earlier this year, the International Fund for Animal Welfare found more than 1,400 live, exotic animals being traded online. [...]
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Photographs of a giant spider eating a bird in an Australian garden have stunned wildlife experts.
The pictures show the spider with its long black legs wrapped around the body of a dead bird suspended in its web.
The startling images were reportedly taken in Atheron, close to Queensland’s tropical north.
Despite their unlikely subject matter, the pictures [...]
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Forgoing layovers and snack stops, a bird known as the bar-tailed godwit has broken the record established for the world’s longest known non-stop bird flight, according to a new study.
The honor goes to a female named “E7″ that continuously flew 7,257 miles across the Pacific Ocean, breaking the [...]
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A species of cockatoo feared to have become extinct has been “rediscovered” with the sighting of a handful of breeding pairs on a remote Indonesian island, researchers said Thursday.
Ten Yellow-crested Abbott’s cockatoos were found on the Masalembu archipelago off Java island, the Indonesian Cockatoo Conservation group said.
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It was a normal Sunday afternoon at Pat Cowie’s place.
Until a pigeon laid an egg on the stovetop.
As they do.
The pigeon popped in an open door at Pat’s Evans Street home, climbed 14 stairs (leaving an incriminating trail of pigeon poo on the way), turned hard left at the top, wandered into the kitchen, and chose [...]
