Birds

See also Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Parrots, Parakeets, Turkeys

Disease Takes Wing
James Carroll, in Common Dreams from Boston Globe, commentary — February 2006
If birds are not a friend to the human species, where in all of nature is friendship to be found? Each day come more reports of the dispersal of diseased poultry and fowl, moving from east to west, Asia into Europe, and alarms begin to sound...

After Four Centuries, Orvieto's Doves to Live in Peace
Barbara McMahon, The Guardian, feature — May 2005
And so another Palombella ritual ended yesterday in the Italian town of Orvieto but the question on everyone's lips was: is this the final time a live dove would be used in the tradition dating back six centuries?...

Bird Brains Get Some New Names — And New Respect
Rick Weiss, Washington Post, feature — February 2005
The new system, which draws upon many of the words used to describe the human brain and has broad support among scientists, acknowledges the now overwhelming evidence that avian and mammalian brains are remarkably similar...

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