Human uses of birds have, for thousands of years, included both economic uses such as food, and symbolic uses such as art, music, and religion. In terms...

Human uses of animals include both practical uses, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic uses, such as in art, literature, mythology...

coexistence of avian dinosaurs (birds) and humans is well established historically and in modern times. The coexistence of non-avian dinosaurs and humans exists...

Human uses of bats include economic uses such as bushmeat or in traditional medicine. Bats are also used symbolically in religion, mythology, superstition...

Human uses of mammals include both practical uses, such as for food, sport, and transport, and symbolic uses, such as in art and mythology. Mammals have...

elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including...

Human uses of living things, including animals plants, fungi, and microbes, take many forms, both practical, such as the production of food and clothing...

Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals...

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In...

difficulty of defining or measuring intelligence in non-human animals makes the subject difficult to study scientifically in birds. In general, birds have relatively...

but certain kinds of birds can hear infrasonic sounds. "Birds are especially sensitive to pitch, tone and rhythm changes and use those variations to...

in the intestinal tract of large numbers of shore birds and water birds, but these strains rarely cause human infection. Five manmade ecosystems have contributed...

Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to...

consumed by humans, with prices up to about $4,300 per pound ($9,500/kg) depending on grading. The type or grading of a swallow nest depends on the bird species...

input-intensive farming. The demand for guano spurred the human colonization of remote bird islands in many parts of the world. Unsustainable seabird guano mining...

Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have...

Humans (Homo sapiens) or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo. They are...

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"'Birds' Pecks Away at Human Beings". Los Angeles Times. p. 13. "The Birds". Variety. March 27, 1963. p. 6. Boyum, Joy Gould, ed. (1971). "The Birds: Brendan...

as "The birds and the bees", is a colloquial expression denoting a rite of passage in the lives of most children when parents explain human sexuality...

of birds belonging to the family Psittacidae, whereas ornithosis is used when other birds carry the disease. In humans, after an incubation period of...

Birds of a feather flock together is an English proverb. The meaning is that beings (typically humans) of similar type, interest, personality, character...

varied and include the use of bird liming for perching birds, mist nets for woodland birds, cannon netting for open-area flocking birds, the bal-chatri trap...

in Central Park Zoo. Birds-of-paradise are closely related to the corvids. Birds-of-paradise range in size from the king bird-of-paradise at 50 g (1.8 oz)...

small minority of birds may continue to roost at their rookery all winter, and adult males may roost collectively somewhere nearby. The birds move off promptly...

Caprimulgiformes   Family: Apodidae Swifts are small birds which spend the majority of their lives flying. These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily...

possibly supplement the bird's own preen oil. Instead of ants, birds can also use millipedes. More than 200 species of bird are known to ant. A possibly...

near passerine birds in the order Piciformes. They are also known as indicator birds, or honey birds, although the latter term is also used more narrowly...

kasuari) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites: flightless birds without a keel on their...

Bird anatomy, or the physiological structure of birds' bodies, shows many unique adaptations, mostly aiding flight. Birds have a light skeletal system...