Forty third grade students from Mahan Elementary School, in Norwich, were treated to a bird ecology field trip program at the Audubon Center in Pomfret, on Oct. 25. The program was sponsored by the ...

My patient is a bird, a 20ish year old Amazon Parrot ( There are many different species, this was a Blue Fronted). The human that presented the bird was very upset. The bird was his dads'. The father ...

“We often read to the birds to calm them down and get them used to hearing the human voice,” Douglas explained. She refers to birds that perform as “the faculty,” as it is they, not she, who are ...

These lessons were designed to accompany parts three, four, and five of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was primarily developed for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or ...

A young robin, not quite two weeks old, jumps off a branch and settles on the leaf litter below her nest tree. In just a few hours, her three siblings follow suit, fluttering downward, then scuttling ...

Now is the season for baby birds, whose births are as miraculous to me as the birth of human babies. How astonishing that a female bird can lay a beautiful oval egg encasing an embryo that develops ...