The Pigeon Express
A dispute between two neighbors over nesting birds in the United Kingdom led to a 25-year-old tree being chopped from the middle, which has now become quite a ‘tourist attraction’. The feud over the boundary began when the tree on the sides of the Mistry family branched out over the side of Graham and Irene […]
There are at least 50 billion individual wild birds in the world, according to a new study. House sparrows alone make up about 1.6 billion of these. Three other species – European starlings, barn swallows and ring-billed gulls also have a population exceeding one billion birds. However, one in ten bird species are rare with fewer than […]
A man was arrested for allegedly smuggling 35 live finches in hair curlers from Guyana for “singing contests” in New York City. Kevin Andre McKenzie, 36, flew to John F. Kennedy International Airport where Customs and Border Protection officers pulled him aside for an examination and found the birds, authorities said. He was charged with […]
Multiple cases of avian influenza were confirmed among birds in several Indian states. Himachal Pradesh: Around 1,700 migratory birds, most of them bar-headed geese, have been found dead under mysterious circumstances in and around Himachal Pradesh’s Pong Dam lake In Kangra district. The sale and purchase of poultry has also been banned in some parts […]
A private chartered jet is all set to fly six pets from Delhi to Mumbai in mid-June. The coronavirus-induced lockdown left a number of people stuck in different parts of the country. Several pets were also left stranded away from their owners due to travel restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the virus. According […]