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Birdweek

How to be a Bird Pick-Up Artist

Andy Wright December 1, 2015

Athanasius Kircher's singing menagerie, the first known example of musically notated birdsong.

The World War II Tool That Changed How We Listen To Birdsong

Cara Giaimo November 25, 2015

We Asked An Ornithologist To Factcheck Angry Birds–And the Results Might Surprise You

Jess Zimmerman November 25, 2015

More Severe Storms Are Throwing off Bird Migration

Tao Tao Holmes November 24, 2015

A Wild Male Turkey's mating dance.

How to Seduce a Turkey: The Bizarre Poultry Sex Experiments of the 1960s

Natalie Zarrelli November 24, 2015

Bird watching with binoculars.

How Early Feminists Helped Revolutionize Birding

Jaya Saxena November 24, 2015

objects of intrigue

Object of Intrigue: Chairman Mao's Maori Feather Cloak

Sarah Laskow November 24, 2015

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie–the blue-blood ancestor of the turducken.

How Turducken Went From Food Of Kings To Poultry of the Populace

Cara Giaimo November 23, 2015

The Eagle Map of the United States. (Image: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)

According to this 1833 Map, Americans Lived in a Giant Eagle

Ella Morton November 23, 2015

rocketman

Finally—Here's Your Jet Pack!

Tao Tao Holmes November 20, 2015

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s both at the same time!

Nobody Wins The War Between Birds and Planes

Cara Giaimo November 20, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: A Tap-Dancing Songbird

Ella Morton November 20, 2015

Starlings on a telegraph pole

The Epic 1959 Battle Between a New York Town and Thousands of Starlings

Andy Wright November 20, 2015

1939 Kangaroo Yearbook

This Is the Only Photo of Charlie Parker Playing His Sax in His Hometown

Sarah Laskow November 20, 2015

In Defense of the Cassowary, the Maligned Killer of the Bird World

Eric Grundhauser November 20, 2015

See a 400-Year-Old Book Made Entirely from Feathers

Anika Burgess November 20, 2015

Barrels at the Buffalo Trace Bourbon Distillery

crime and punishment

How a Small-Town Crime Syndicate Stole Kentucky's Bourbon

Cale Weissman November 19, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: Thanksgiving Turkeys in Every Color of the Rainbow

Jess Zimmerman November 19, 2015