Looking at ‘The Goldfinch,’ and Thinking About Extinction

A new exhibition about birds ranges from old masters paintings to contemporary art. The show is “a mad sprawl of instincts ...

The Bird with Fiery and Fabulous Plumage

Birds such as the Mandarin duck, scarlet macaw, and lilac-breasted roller come in colors that seem to defy reality. Some ...

How do birds stay warm in winter?

You’re at the park wearing a heavy winter coat, a beanie, gloves, a scarf, and warm boots—and you’re still numb and shivering from the cold. Then you notice a robin hopping from branch to branch.

The brilliant and bizarre ways birds use their sense of smell—from natural cologne to pest control

When we think about birds, we often picture their colorful plumage: the iridescence of a peacock's tail or the electric blue flash of a kingfisher. Or we might consider how they use voices, from the ...
San Francisco Examiner

Keep the fun going this week in The City with these 18 SF events

Photographer Sally Mann talks with visual artist Ted Orland about “Art Work: On the Creative Life,” Mann’s 2025 memoir ...

From the Archive: The Timeless Elegance of Feathers in Couture

From Chanel to Alexander McQueen for Givenchy, the allure of feathers has shaped memorable moments in couture collections through the decades.
Wharfedale Observer

Britain's birds and their nests

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IEEE

A binary Bird Swarm Optimization technique for cloud computing task scheduling and load balancing

Abstract: Cloud computing is a new paradigm for highperformance computation that combines a wide collection of autonomous mixed devices with a flexible computational construction to manage and deliver ...
Orlando Sentinel

Across the forgotten walls of a Hong Kong island, a flock of bird murals rises

HONG KONG (AP) — They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house’s rooftop. Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Across the forgotten walls of a Hong Kong island, a flock of bird murals rises

HONG KONG (AP) — They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house’s rooftop. A flock has landed in Wang Tong Village, a peaceful ...
Lake County Record-Bee

Across the forgotten walls of a Hong Kong island, a flock of bird murals rises

HONG KONG (AP) — They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house’s rooftop. It’ll cost you $45 to fly without a Real ID starting in ...
The Hamilton Spectator

Couture and Lauren Sánchez are everywhere in Paris as Dior and Schiaparelli mix wonder and wit

PARIS (AP) — Dior turned the Musée Rodin into a celebrity waiting room — then into a garden — on the first day of Paris Couture Week. Guests packed into the museum as the start time for the show ...