This weekend, the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres a piece by composer Gabriela Lena Frank. “Picaflor: A Future Myth” is based on the mythology of the Incan people from the Andes region of South ...

Take a look at the Mythical Birds Trailer for Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy, a remake of the classic action-adventure game developed by Microids Studio Paris. Players will embark on a quest to ...

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Researchers have been eavesdropping on an unusual family of crows in Spain, collecting data on hundreds of thousands of different sounds the birds made. Small microphones recorded a variety of ...

The current outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the United States has caused concern among scientists, public health officials and lawmakers. Recent studies and reports show that the virus has spread further ...

The insult “bird brain” should probably be retired. Eurasian jays can pass the marshmallow test, some species have ”culture”, and even extinct avians like the dodo were probably smarter ...

Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in ...

A Jan. 30 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) makes a series of claims about bird flu. "Remember they are not killing the ducks, seagulls, eagles and quail," reads text in the post.