While watching a feisty cockatoo chase after a hawk, CrowdScience listener Alison saw the hawk catch a thermal and rise effortlessly into the sky. The cockatoo gave chase, but the hawk climbed higher ...

CHICO — The new exhibit “Birds, Birds and More Birds: A Celebration of Avian Art” at the Museum of Northern California Art asks viewers to look at birds from a different perspective.

And that got Alison thinking: just how high can birds go? Are there altitude limits for our feathered friends? Could a cockatoo, a sparrow, or even a duck reach such dizzying heights if they ...

I have homemade bird feeders – two old pie tins, one nailed to my deck railing and the other on a TV tray in the yard, weighed down with a huge rock. The rock, by the way, is to keep the TV ...