Why are some birds less scared than other birds? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 4 answers

I work in a pretty large office building, and while walking the bi-level lobby floors I always hear trapped birds chirping and see them hopping around... [more inside]
posted on May 23, 2008 - 1 answers

First-time bird owner, wants something that is relatively easy to maintain, and has a pleasant song. [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2008 - 10 answers

Please help me identify the species of duck that I saw last week in North Carolina. [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2008 - 4 answers

How do the birds know that my birdfeeder now has better seed? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - 11 answers

Is there anything that I can do to keep birds from flying into my office windows? [more inside]
posted on Jan 4, 2008 - 12 answers

Please help me identify the birds I've been seeing paddling around Boston Harbor/Dorchester Bay these past few weeks. Snow white feathers on the back, dark otherwise. Don't know if it's some sort of duck or goose. [more inside]
posted on Nov 7, 2007 - 6 answers

What kind of bird was this? I found my cat playing with it, so if you're a bird lover, even though you may be able to help, you may want to stop reading here. [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2007 - 10 answers

I am looking for gardening experiments [more inside]
posted on Oct 21, 2007 - 9 answers

Can you please identify and/or link me to a black & white flash animation of black birds marching and flying in repeated ranks... [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2007 - 5 answers

please help me identify this beautiful feather... [more inside]
posted on Aug 17, 2007 - 16 answers

Help me attract birds to my balcony [more inside]
posted on Aug 13, 2007 - 8 answers

Are birds getting dumber? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2007 - 19 answers

I need single word name for bird training. It needs to be either more generic than falconry or if it exists, more specifically, it's related to the art of training homing pigeons (often mistaken as carrier pigeons).
posted on Jun 14, 2007 - 11 answers

Antique Print Restoration: I have 6 or 7 original c. 1860 Gould humming bird prints. These are large (14" x x21" +/-) hand-colored lithographs. In wonderful condition EXCEPT there is slight black "text transfer" visible on the print. This sometimes happens to antique prints when there was no tissue-guard to separate the print from the text on the opposite facing page. [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2007 - 2 answers

How are dead baby birds showing up in parts of my yard with no trees? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2007 - 13 answers

What is the physiology of bird sounds? [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2007 - 7 answers

These two birds insist on building a nest on my porch. Thus, my cats are freaking out. How can I get these birds to take a hike? More detail inside, this isn't as easy as it sounds! [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2007 - 15 answers

Is there a one-way reflective material for windows that doesn't reduce outbound visibility? I'm trying to help my cats sit on the windowsill without scaring the birds away from the feeder. [more inside]
posted on Feb 14, 2007 - 14 answers

My roommate recently saw a "Fresh" music video on VH1 that she really liked. Now, she wants to see it again but can't remember what it was called. All she has is a vague memory of a pink bird crushing on the video's singer. Help? [more inside]
posted on Feb 1, 2007 - 1 answers

What can I do with a dead bird (beyond outright disposal)? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2007 - 23 answers

Bats in the belfry? No, birds in the walls. How long do I have to wait before we seal up the hole? [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2007 - 4 answers

What kind of bird is this? [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2006 - 9 answers

Pigeons begone! How do I keep pigeons off my ledge? [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2006 - 24 answers

Attention penguin mavens. Something about "March of the Penguins" ain't right. [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2006 - 6 answers

What do I do with a baby bird in my backyard? [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2006 - 14 answers

In the past two weeks a bird (let's call him Stan) has developed a weird attachment to the rear view mirrors on our car. (The car is parked outside.) At all hours of the day Stan can be found sitting on the side of one of the mirrors pecking furiously. He seems to prefer one side mirror more than the other but doesn't really care too much. I'd really like to discourage little Stan from his behavior because he might scratch up the mirror and he's pooping all over the doors. [more inside]
posted on May 22, 2006 - 11 answers

There is a hawk's nest in the lot next to our house with babies in it. They are about to clear cut the land to put yet another crappy built house there (all in the name of "money"). Is there anything that can be done to save that nest?
posted on May 18, 2006 - 18 answers

I hear a bird from my apartment all morning and well in to the evening. Its call is three notes, in a minor key, descending in pitch. In fact, those three notes sound almost EXACTLY like the first three guitar notes of the Black Crowes' song "Remedy." I can't see the bird. Any help?
posted on Apr 16, 2006 - 20 answers

Can I hook a camera (meant for security) to a computer to take pics? [more inside]
posted on Apr 8, 2006 - 7 answers

How do I get a bird to stop sitting on my side mirrors and shitting all over my car? [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2006 - 31 answers

The family bird hates me, help! [more inside]
posted on Mar 20, 2006 - 13 answers

Moved into a new place and was awoken the first morning by a starling that had nested in my wall, coming in through an old dryer vent that's no longer in service. I could hear it tweeting and warbling and generally making a huge racket right next to my bed at 6 a.m. I can't fully see all the way down the vent duct. I covered it up after he left (he was watching me from a nearby tree) but am paranoid I've locked some of his egg-children in there. [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2006 - 10 answers

Why does my bird always try to bite me? [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2006 - 15 answers

Why are there so many book publishers that have birds in their names or their logos? Is there a historical explanation? Is there any explanation? [more inside]
posted on Feb 8, 2006 - 22 answers

So I found a still-live bird trapped under the wheel of a car. It's now in my bathroom... [more inside]
posted on Dec 3, 2005 - 17 answers

BirdFeederFilter: When it's gloomy and rainy, I don't see any birds at my birdfeeder for days on end. Then as soon as it's sunny, they're all over the place. What gives? What do they do on rainy days, just forage near their nest? Don't birds gotta eat when it rains?
posted on Nov 18, 2005 - 9 answers

Can someone tell me the name of this TV movie? There are some spoilers here if you haven't seen this, but there's no other way to try to identify it. [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2005 - 14 answers

Can/do fish species and bird species interbreed? Not fish-and-bird together, just to be clear. I'm not insane, thanks very much. :) [more inside]
posted on Sep 10, 2005 - 18 answers

I want to prepare a Russian-Doll Roast. [more inside]
posted on Sep 8, 2005 - 23 answers

I have a Nikon d70 (and an n80) and several lenses, the longest of which zooms to 200mm. I have a remote for the d70 (and a cable-release for the n80). I have a mediocre tripod. My yard is filled with birds. What do I need to know to optimize my chance at great bird photos? Is it merely a matter of patience and luck? Does anyone here have experience with bird photography? [more inside]
posted on Aug 11, 2005 - 5 answers

What are some good books about birds? [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2005 - 9 answers

What's the worst place to build your nest and lay your eggs? Above a downspout seems to me a pretty bad choice. [more inside]
posted on Jul 24, 2005 - 15 answers

Does anyone know of any stellar bird breeders in Portland, Oregon? [more inside]
posted on Jun 16, 2005 - 9 answers

Got a parakeet recently, and for the past few days he's been hovering over his water bowl at all times, going to the bathroom in it. [more inside]
posted on Jun 10, 2005 - 5 answers

How do I keep birds off my pool's solar cover? [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2005 - 6 answers

So my wife and I are walking in the park in SW Oregon, and there in the creek is a little starling-lookin' bird on a rock. Brown-black, no markings. The bird jumps in the water, and swims upstream under the water, looking perfectly natural. It came up with a little twig or something, then did it again, and again. It was swimming for distances of 3 to 6 feet. What kind of bird was this?
posted on Apr 20, 2005 - 10 answers

A pair of swans are nesting on the river near my flat, is there anything I could do which might help them and their cygnets to survive? Any food I could provide, etc or would I be helping them best by just staying well away?
posted on Apr 18, 2005 - 9 answers

Could you give me any ideas for ridding my horse barn of English Sparrows. Their population has reached plague proportion. They have driven away the barn swallows, phoebes and robins that used to nest in the barn. we would prefer a live trap as we would like to keep our native birds and bats, but we are frustrated enough with the sparrows’ mess, that we wouldn't be fussy about what traps we set during the winter.
posted on Mar 8, 2005 - 7 answers

Do birds fart?
posted on Dec 22, 2004 - 23 answers