Coyotes are bird's best friends, according to ecologists who have studied how these animals keep smaller predators such as cats in check. Kevin Crooks of the University of California at Santa Cruz

the Union government is planning to prohibit location of landfill sites within a 10-km radius of airports and airbases in the direction of the

keoladeo national park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is fast losing its population of rare birds due to unchecked human habitation. The human population around the forest has registered a 24 per cent

iron powder and magnets may come to the rescue of birds caught in oil spills. John Orbell and his colleagues at the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, said the iron is

did the earliest flying birds evolve from fast runners that learnt to flap their wings and take off? Proponents of

s m satheesan, senior programme officer, forest and wildlife conservation division of the World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) said that the primary reason for the decline in vulture populations

more than one in 10 of the aquatic birds in Spain's Donana National Park are suffering from the effects of high levels of heavy metals after a toxic spill at the Los Frailes zinc mine a year