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11-Year-Old Bird Artist Olivia Bouler Releases Book

Things 11-year-old Olivia Bouler has done in the last 12 months: Cleaned up a Gulf Coast beach with the Jonas Brothers Appeared on the "Today" show Wrote her first book, "Olivia's Birds: Saving the Gulf," released this week Received a glowing review for said book in Publisher's Weekly Raised more than...

Polly Want a Chainsaw? Lyrebird Imitates Jackhammer, Drill, Other Tools

Bird keepers at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia are eagerly awaiting breeding season to hear what new calls the zoo's resident lyrebird has learned. Known as Chook, the zoo's lyrebird is an expert mimic and has previously heard and copied construction sounds, including hammers, drills, two-way radios and chainsaws, as well...

Inglorious Macaws: Tarantino Sues Neighbor Over 'Blood-Curdling' Bird Screams

Quentin Tarantino may be known for cameo appearances in his own films, but it seems he'd rather not find himself in Hitchcock's horror-classic "The Birds." Citing "blood-curdling" and "pterodactyl-like screams," the "Kill Bill" director has filed a lawsuit against his Oscar-winning neighbor Alan Ball over the distracting...

Bizarre Bird Maimings in Huntington Beach: A Vast 'Right Wing' Conspiracy?

It's a weird, gruesome mystery that has all the local wildlife experts in "Surf City, USA" scratching their heads. In the past three weeks, almost 30 birds have been found in Huntington Beach, Calif., all with an almost identical signature injury: a devastatingly shattered right wing. Debbie McGuire, wildlife director at...

This 60-Year-Old Mother Just Hatched a New Chick

Wisdom just had another baby. And the fact that she's hatching new chicks six decades after her own birth is only one of the noteworthy achievements of this Laysan albatross, the oldest known wild bird in the United States. "She looks great," said Bruce Peterjohn, chief of the North American Bird Banding Program at the...