Tag: BIRDS

The Middle East may be once again on the brink of ornithological warfare, now that Saudi Arabian officials have detained an Israeli bird suspected of espionage. The bird was first spotted in a rural area of the country, wearing a transmitter and a leg bracelet that read 'Tel Aviv University.' Officials promptly took the creature into custody, and accused it of being a Mossad spy. Its tag would ...

Thomas Voor 't Hekke has placed birds with surveillance cameras for heads all over the city of Utrecht, Netherlands. The 'panoptICONS', as he calls them, are clear in their meaning, and reflect his distrust of government supervision in broad strokes. But, like a Banksy stencil come to life, their menacing visual contrast startles passersby, reminding them of the eye in the sky. ...

What's the best sound in the world to wake up hearing? A rooster crowing? Not unless you're a hungry fox. How about an alarm clock blaring in your ear? Not even close. But what if somebody found a way to combine the sounds of fowls' cries and that foul device? Well, they have, and it's called BirdBox. It just might be the cutest (and maybe simultaneously annoying) app we've come across. ...

It's official. The birds are attacking. For the second time in a month, a single bird has defied the odds and taken down a piece of machinery many times its size. According to the Lufkin Daily News, Andy House was cruising down the roads of La Marque, Texas in his $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron last Wednesday, minding his own business and talking on the phone (which, we are sure, didn't ...

Every now and then, something will randomly fall out of the sky into an extremely insular environment, and chaos and confusion will erupt. Those consequences, as Chicken Little will tell you, can be devastating. Something along those lines recently happened at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when a bird dropped a baguette on the giant particle accelerator as it was flying overhead, nearly ...

We've seen birds tasked with carrying around sensors in order to provide data about external happenings, but up until now, tracking birds' migration patterns from start to finish has been a tedious, if not impossible task. Gurus from York University in Toronto have apparently figured out the solution, and it all sounds much simpler than you might imagine. By equipping birds with minuscule ...

Members of America's Wireless industry are working with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to authorize the construction of new cell phone towers that won't slaughter millions of migrating birds every year. They are under pressure to do so because the towers currently sprawled across the U.S., well, do kill millions of birds (between four and five million birds, according to ...