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Old-fashioned tweet can net you a bird pet for $1 |
BRAINERD, Minn. - Tweeting the old-fashioned way can net you a steep discount on a feathered friend.
The Animal Humane Society says its five Minnesota shelters are housing too many birds. In an effort to encourage adoptions,... |
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Hummingbird rehab is a fast-paced labor of love |
LOS ANGELES - They're kidnapped by children or captured by cats.
They're cut down by tree trimmers or toppled by winds.
Some fly into walls or windows, while others see their parents injured in territorial feuds. |
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Quail need help to re-roost in Pennsylvania |
There is something missing from the almost 200,000 acres of grasslands and farm fields in the Central Susquehanna area.
Thanks to an apparently successful reintroduction program by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and... |
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Bird lovers take aim at dangerous spikes |
CLEARWATER, Fla. - In the world of birds vs. bird control spikes, every story seems more gruesome than the last.
In one, a spike tears through the webbing of a bird's feet.
In another, a dead pelican hangs from the top of... |
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Auction employee foils sale of illegal parakeets |
July 07 - MIDDLEBURG - A Floridian has been fined $75 for attempting to sell two illegal birds at a Snyder County livestock auction, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
A worker at the Middleburg Livestock Auction... |
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Pet rooster falls foul of legal system in Michigan |
PETOSKEY, Mich. - Beaker the rooster can't beat the man.
The northern Michigan fowl whose address has been the focus of at least two court challenges is passing on the chance to crow before the Michigan Court of Appeals.
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San Francisco’s famous parrots face rough times |
| SAN FRANCISCO — The wild parrots that call San Francisco home have become a given of city life, squawking their way to their favorite spots, delighting tourists. The famous flock is now about 300 strong, more than triple what it was 10... |
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Johnstown teenager nurses 2 baby robins back to health |
May 5--JOHNSTOWN -- Jim and Simba are just about ready to fly the coop.
Eliott Mulvehill, 13, of Johnstown, rescued the two abandoned baby robins last week and has been nursing the chicks back to health. He plans to... |
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People with problem pets must make their own peace |
Angie Best-Boss has tried changing litter boxes, types of litter, brands of litter. But something has gone terribly wrong with Tiger.
"I loathe my cat," said the freelance writer in New Palestine, Ind.... |
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Plucky whooping crane gives wildlife experts hope |
ARANSAS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Texas — After the poisonous snake slithered into the whooping crane family’s marshy grounds and sank its fangs into the chick’s neck, death seemed certain.
The bird’s head... |
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Swiss voters reject giving abused animals a lawyer |
GENEVA — The result was emphatic: Swiss voters don’t think abused animals need to have their own lawyers.
It’s a proposal that would never even come near a referendum in other countries, but the measure’s defeat... |
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