Birds

Whose Feathered Friends? Our Feathered Friends!

The Dodos pick up steam with their new Visiter

The Dodos: Look How Far They've Come

The Dodos at Pitchfork Music Festival

The Dodos Get Some NPR Love

SF Weekly Birdwatching: Blue Heron Sighting at Mission Creek

SF Weekly Birdwatching: Today on Mission Creek

Bow Down

Local Audobon Society Looking for S.F. Volunteers: Collect, Count Dead Birds -- at 5 a.m.

Second to Col. Sanders, flying into windows is the major cause of death for North American birds. The Audobon Society estimates it may claim 100 million or more of our feathered friends yearly. Now they're hoping San Franciscans will help them count. At 5 a.m. "They keep the streets pretty clean in ... More >>

Cute Overload

Second to Col. Sanders, flying into windows is the major cause of death for North American birds. The Audobon Society estimates it may claim 100 million or more of our feathered friends yearly. Now they're hoping San Franciscans will help them count. At 5 a.m. "They keep the streets pretty clean in ... More >>

Mother Nature or Nurture?

The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

Empty Nest

Ever since the owner of the Owl Tree bar died, things just haven't been the same

Dance of the Penguin

That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 14, 2006

A Pigeon Noir

Week of Wednesday, June 14, 2006

A Perch With a View

The controversy regarding the famous Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill may be drawing to a close, but the question remains: Does anyone still care?

Bird Droppings

Disney's Valiant effort never leaves the hangar

Owl In

Getting to the bottom of the Owl Tree and its grumpy old owner

Miracle on Ice

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

Best Butcher Shop

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

Best Sex Tour Hostess

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

Best Place to Feed Ducks

Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon

Longtime Companions

Exhibit gives props to pigeons

Up in the Air, Mr. Birdman

Telegraph Hill is home to a flock of wild parrots -- and one wild parrot guy

Best (and Definitely Most Eccentric) Barkeep

Bobby Cobby

Brain Birds

A thoughtful consideration of the smart and feathered friends at Mickaboo Cockatiel Rescue and Happy Birds

Best Theme Bar

The Owl Tree

Best Watch Repair

Puffin's

Hunting With Hawks

The trials and satisfaction of falconry in 21st-century America

Songs of Science

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Five Best Places to Celebrate the Sunset

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Night Crawler

To the Farallones

Industry: Pheasant Fad

To the Farallones

Dirty Dealings at the Dock

San Francisco is planning to take title to the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard before the military completes an environmental cleanup. The move could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars -- or more.

Night Crawler

San Francisco is planning to take title to the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard before the military completes an environmental cleanup. The move could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars -- or more.

Bombs Away

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover

Letters

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

Penguins Defy Arranged Couplings at the California Academy of Sciences

The illicit love of Howard and Safara​Last night at the California Academy of Sciences, a group of spectators gathered around the African penguin exhibit squealed and cooed as twenty blackfoot penguins bopped around their rocky enclosure like so many wind-up toys. These parti ... More >>

Being a San Francisco Wild Parrot Ain't Easy

San Francisco's famous colony of wild parrots has never been bigger -- or harder-up -- according to a much-circulated A.P. article. The personable, striking birds made famous by the film The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and its birdman subject Mark Bittner's book of the same title are thrivin ... More >>

Coldcore

San Francisco's famous colony of wild parrots has never been bigger -- or harder-up -- according to a much-circulated A.P. article. The personable, striking birds made famous by the film The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and its birdman subject Mark Bittner's book of the same title are thrivin ... More >>

Shot Animals

San Francisco's famous colony of wild parrots has never been bigger -- or harder-up -- according to a much-circulated A.P. article. The personable, striking birds made famous by the film The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and its birdman subject Mark Bittner's book of the same title are thrivin ... More >>

Cockatiels Inundate San Francisco Animal Control

'I just flew in from the coast...'​A flock of cockatiels wasn't a band in the 1980s. There was no signature "flock of cockatiels" haircut. A flock of cockatiels is, literally, a flock of cockatiels -- and you can find one now at San Francisco's Animal Care and Control. The repository of pets-to-be ... More >>

Winged Migration

'I just flew in from the coast...'​A flock of cockatiels wasn't a band in the 1980s. There was no signature "flock of cockatiels" haircut. A flock of cockatiels is, literally, a flock of cockatiels -- and you can find one now at San Francisco's Animal Care and Control. The repository of pets-to-be ... More >>

Owl Kick Your Ass

'I just flew in from the coast...'​A flock of cockatiels wasn't a band in the 1980s. There was no signature "flock of cockatiels" haircut. A flock of cockatiels is, literally, a flock of cockatiels -- and you can find one now at San Francisco's Animal Care and Control. The repository of pets-to-be ... More >>

S.F. Experimental Outfit Barn Owl Spreads Its Wings, Plays the Independent Tonight

Barn Owl​Thanks to both the national media and the local one, most of us know about the more-than-worthy garage-rock, shoegaze, indie-pop, and electronic sounds emanating from the S.F. scene. But far less appreciated are the aquifers of creativity stirring beneath us in the Bay Area's experimental ... More >>

Junk Food Ban Weighed -- For Seagulls

Gross​Since seagulls are mysteriously dying by the dozens at Pier 94 rendering plant after feasting on offal, the Board of Supervisors has been urged to enforce a larine version of a junk food ban.At its Feb. 10 meeting, the city's Animal Care & Control Commission introduced a drafted letter t ... More >>

Palace of Fine Arts Has New Tenants -- Barn Owls

They're cute when they're young.​Many people know about the great horned owl family living on Strawberry Hill in the middle of Stow Lake. But did you know barn owls -- the ghostly-looking birds with white, heart-shaped faces -- are making a family at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina?Josi ... More >>

Spotting Birds at a Record Pace, with a Camera and a Bike

They're cute when they're young.​Many people know about the great horned owl family living on Strawberry Hill in the middle of Stow Lake. But did you know barn owls -- the ghostly-looking birds with white, heart-shaped faces -- are making a family at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina?Josi ... More >>

"Mr Popper's Penguins": Jim Carrey Mugs Endlessly in Dull Kids' Romp

They're cute when they're young.​Many people know about the great horned owl family living on Strawberry Hill in the middle of Stow Lake. But did you know barn owls -- the ghostly-looking birds with white, heart-shaped faces -- are making a family at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina?Josi ... More >>