OAKLAND, Calif. — Birds and buildings can be a fatal combination. The American Bird Conservancy cites studies estimating that hundreds of millions of birds die each year as a result of colliding with ...

[Cover Image: Island Press] It doesn’t have to be this way, according to a new book, The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats, by Timothy Beatley. Citing new policies, building materials, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bring some new blossoms to your garden this year — the type with feathers instead of petals. By planting the right mix of shrubs, trees and flowers, you can ...

With the $3 billion convention center project underway in downtown Dallas, conservation groups say the project could play a key role in saving migratory birds. Each spring and fall, billions of birds ...

Each year since 2012, volunteers with the nonprofit City Wildlife have canvassed a roughly 13-block area between Union Station and China Town. They've found a total 4,500 dead or injured birds — ...

You might bump into a window and suffer embarrassment. Birds do the same and they're dead. That simple fatal combination, multiplied millions of times a year, minimally, across the United States, was ...

Birds, especially the urban variety, are feeling the effects of a warming planet. Higher temperatures and a lack of clean ...

Everyone has heard the thunk of a bird hitting a window. It’s startling, and then it’s sad. But what few of us realize is just how widespread the problem is. Across North America, buildings account ...

Tulle, fur, velvet and leather — these luxurious materials are the stuff of costume designers’ dreams. But designer Taylar Kuzniar-Klouda doesn’t need all that garbage to make fly costumes. All she ...