LOS ANGELES ES - Russell Crowe is being bothered by birds. The actor has been struggling to go about his business at home because of the noise made by a group of cockatoos. He revealed: ''I have about 300 sulphur crested Cockatoo outside my window... absolute cacophony.''

MAUREEN DOWDOver the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would have to figure out a legal and moral framework for the flying killer robots executing targets around the globe. They were starting to realize that, while the American ...

ISLAMABAD  - The romanticism of Margalla Hills has seemed to overpower a large number of birds where about 460 different species of birds are reported to be settled.Lush green and mighty Margalla hills, adjacent to the capital city of Islamabad, add to the magnificence of the capital known for ...

SUVA (AFP) - Fiji dropped the image of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II from a new range of bank notes and coins unveiled Wednesday, replacing her with plants and animals native to the Pacific island state. Fiji President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau said the new currency was a milestone for the former ...

BIRDS are lining their nests with cigarette butts to repel pests and keep themselves warm, according to research.Wild birds have long protected their nests from mite invasion by importing chemical-emitting plants, reports the Daily Telegraph. But now birds living in cities seem to have adapted ...

TheNation MonitoringSome birds, it seems, hold funerals for their dead. When western scrub jays encounter a dead bird, they call out to one another and stop foraging. The jays then often fly down to the dead body and gather around it, scientists have discovered. The behaviour may have evolved to ...

MULTAN - A girl and her alleged paramour were slaughtered by her family members in wee hours of Thursday, police said. The killers, who were identified as girls uncle Muhammad Wakeel, brother Dastgir and cousin Sajan, surrendered to the police and murder tool was also recovered from them. Police ...

This vicious European Starling is a real-life Angry Bird as it grasps the beak of a colourful Nothern Flicker in a bid to steal its nest. The pair duelled for several minutes during the treetop tussle after a gang of the black birds swooped in on their unsuspecting speckled foes new home. The ...

THE call of the cuckoo is disappearing from Britains countryside, according to the latest research that adds the well-loved species to a growing red list of the countrys most endangered birds for the first time. The unmistakable two-note call, described by Wordsworth as a 'wandering voice, is a ...

THERE are two types of budgie smugglers - both an arresting sight. One is the famously tight pair of trunks worn by Daniel Craig as 007. The other, however, is far less easy to spot. The latter was caught by inspectors at a US airport after concealing more than a dozen rare songbirds under his ...

DHAKA (AFP) - Almost 10,000 birds have been slaughtered in Bangladesh in the past two months, an official said Wednesday, as the impoverished country faces a new outbreak of deadly avian flu. Mozammel Haq, officer in charge of the government's response to the H5N1 strain, told AFP the birds had ...

KARACHI - Migratory birds cannot be declared responsible for the outbreak of bird flue in any part of the world, including Pakistan, as recent foreign scientific studies revealed that there is no solid evidence which show correlation between migratory birds and bird flue in any part of the world. ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - A new study has determined that the full moon can dramatically increase the activity of a particular marine bird. According to a report, the finding adds to a growing body of evidence that lunar phases affect the behavior of insects, birds, fish and mammals - including humans. ...

ISLAMABAD - The practice of selling birds in the name of "Sadqa" (Charity) is on the rise in the twin cities. The shrewd bird sellers provoke the sentiments of customers to set the birds free after paying money. TheNation has learnt that such callous bird-sellers could easily be found in most of ...

SELF-recognition, it has been argued, is a hallmark of advanced cognitive abilities in animals. It was previously thought that only the usual suspects of higher cognition - some great apes, dolphins, and elephants - were able to recognise their own bodies in a mirror. Psychologist Helmut Prior ...

PARIS (AFP) - Jean-Paul Gaultier's exotic birds of paradise all came complete with their cages at his couture show for next autumn-winter on Wednesday. Whether in slinky second-skin satin sheaths slit tantalisingly to the thigh or shrugged into a luxurious fur jacket like a wolf pelt, the cage ...