FROM THE PRICE AND PROMISE of a single egg to the life of the chicken who laid it, here are eight stories that reflect upon the world’s most popular bird.

One researcher went and untangled the bird. Lead researcher Keith Bowers broke out his gear and started to measure the bird’s ...

One thing seems clear, though: anting feels great if you’re a bird. Ravens use “hand” gestures. It turns out that ravens make “very sophisticated nonvocal signals,” according to researchers.

The ghost outfit and hand puppet have been used in the conservation of birds of prey for decades. In this case, it’s being used to raise a king vulture chick, born at the zoo on February 25.

And unless managers can figure out and reverse what’s wrong in the next year or two, this bird will almost surely be gone—the first known bird extinction in the continental United States since the ...

Bird-in-Hand is bringing back this show, which was produced here in 2019. — “The Christmas Candy Caper,” Oct. 30-Dec. 27, is another returning show, from 2024.

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A human hand found on a playground in Ireland is believed to have been dropped by a bird flying overhead. The body part was dumped onto an empty schoolyard in northern Dublin around 10:30 a.m ...

A bird flying over an elementary school in Ireland dropped a severed hand from its beak last week — and authorities believe the body part may belong to a local boy recently hurt in a gas-can ...

Irish authorities ‘were alerted to the discovery of partial human remains’ on Feb. 21, per a police statement obtained by PEOPLE, after a bird reportedly dropped a human hand into a schoolyard ...

A human hand was discovered at a schoolyard in Ireland, and it is thought to have once belonged to a child, according to reports. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, Gardaí — the national police ...

A SEVERED human hand was discovered lying in the yard of a primary school today after a bird dropped it. The limb was dropped into the grounds of Our Lady Immaculate school in Darndale, north Dubl… ...