In hardly any time, and with a little help from your feathered friends, you can make a lightweight bird kite. This tiny toy is attractive and also quite simple to assemble, because the body is plastic ...

New Delhi: On Saturday afternoon, a pigeon was flying gracefully in Chandni Chowk when suddenly, a razor-sharp kite string appeared out of nowhere. As the thread caught its wing and sliced deep into ...

The kite used to nest and raise its young in Israel 70-80 years ago. Many a nesting pair could be seen near Tel Aviv and in northern Israel. While Israel is a central stopover on the route of ...

Teams of the fire brigade and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) on Sunday rescued a brown-headed barbet, which got entangled with a kite string and nearly choked to death, officials said, ...

As kites of all shapes, sizes and colours dot the sky and cries of bho katta fill the air on Makar Sankranti, the risk of injuries among birds soars as well. The Alipore zoo shared an appeal on ...

A red kite, or Milvus, a medium-sized bird of prey that is rare in Turkey, was spotted in İstanbul. The bird from the Accipitridae family, also known as the Hawk or Vulture family, was sighted by a ...

NEWMARKET — The Mississippi Kite, a medium-sized gray bird of prey typically not seen north of Virginia, has been migrating north to Newmarket for the past seven summers, stunning local bird-watchers.

For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two of Georgia’s — and the nation’s — most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near ...

Readers often email me this time of year, sometimes with accompanying photos, to find out the identity of a sleek, grayish, hawklike bird. What they are usually seeing is a Mississippi kite, and ...