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Songbirds

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2012

    Sparrows' Nest Disappears From Home In Traffic Light

    On Thursday, Dan Callister, a freelance photojournalist, took a photo of a sparrows' nest tucked inside a traffic light on 72nd Street just past Fifth Avenue in Central Park. On Friday he got a call from the New York Post, he told Runnin' Scared this morning, when he went to visit the light again, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2011

    Birds Know Grammar, Use It Really Good

    "Upon whom shall I defecate?"​Birds can do it all. They fly, have hollow bones, eat worms all day, and live in houses made of sticks and spit. If you think birds can't get any more amazing, think again. Researchers at the University of Kyoto have found that Bengalese finches follow a pitch pat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Murder Mystery Grows as Dead Birds Found in Rich New York City Neighborhood

    via​It seems so quaint and long ago now, that time when we were worried about the sky raining dead birds, long before you-know-who commanded the nation's attention. It was life or death then, and not just for a bad sitcom or abusive drug addict. (Get well, dude, but forget the TV show.) So whe ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 16, 2011

    Ben & Vesper

    via​It seems so quaint and long ago now, that time when we were worried about the sky raining dead birds, long before you-know-who commanded the nation's attention. It was life or death then, and not just for a bad sitcom or abusive drug addict. (Get well, dude, but forget the TV show.) So whe ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 9, 2011

    Otis Clay+Tre Williams & the Revelations

    via​It seems so quaint and long ago now, that time when we were worried about the sky raining dead birds, long before you-know-who commanded the nation's attention. It was life or death then, and not just for a bad sitcom or abusive drug addict. (Get well, dude, but forget the TV show.) So whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Dead Birds Fall in Sweden, Louisiana, Arkansas and Kentucky; Now It's Time to Panic

    Louisiana's dead birds​If Unsolved Mysteries is not still being made, perhaps the show should consider a comeback for this most recent international phenomenon: birds have now fallen from the sky across the American South, but also in Sweden, where "residents found 50 to 100 jackdaws on a stre ... More >>

  • Dance

    June 12, 2007

    Bleeding Heart

    An Oscar Wilde fairy tale becomes a heartbreaking ballet

  • Film

    February 6, 2007

    Peter Whitehead Was There

    From the beat poetry slam to Pink Floy'd coming-out party, filmmaker never missed a '60s happening

  • Dance

    July 25, 2006

    Book Sorcery

    A man and a raven prowl the corridors of dream

  • Dance

    January 10, 2006

    Starting Over?

    If the new turns out to be just like the old, you'd better just stay where you are

  • Books

    August 23, 2005

    Books

    If the new turns out to be just like the old, you'd better just stay where you are

  • Columns

    July 29, 2003

    Horoscope

    If the new turns out to be just like the old, you'd better just stay where you are

  • Books

    January 9, 2001

    Keeping it Unreal

    If the new turns out to be just like the old, you'd better just stay where you are

  • News

    August 22, 2000

    Harnessing the Creation of Morning

    What Will Happen When All the Birds Are Gone?

  • News

    June 6, 2000

    Old City Tree

    Maneuvering Through the Silence of Two Unexpected Deaths

  • Long Island Voice

    October 12, 1999

    Swooping Down on the West Nile Outbreak

    Maneuvering Through the Silence of Two Unexpected Deaths

  • News

    October 5, 1999

    Wing Span

    Wired Bird Lovers Combine Anecdotes and Activism

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