All news on the topic: Birds

The songbirds smashed into the windows of McCormick Place in Chicago on Wednesday evening and were discovered when a caretaker for the building noticed a "carpet of dead birds"

Seagulls are showing "increasingly aggressive behaviour" in the picturesque city of Bath, Somerset, and people say it is "impossible to escape sleep deprivation"

A 14-week-old pelican escaped from Blackpool Zoo in Lancashire on Friday and keepers are now searching for the bird. They believe it headed towards the South Shore area of Blackpool

WARNING, DISTRESSING IMAGES: Rhiannon Fennell thought a brick had fallen on her head as she was knocked to the ground during the vicious attack at her home in Prestatyn, Wales

Aggressive seagulls have been attacking residents and tourists at the north Wales seaside resort of Rhyl with one stealing an ice-cream from a child in a pram but a clampdown on the birds has been ruled out

Southern Water, which is working with Portsmouth City Council and the Environment Agency, has examined samples to try to identify how water quality dropped at Southsea

Footage shows a man running along the seafront at Brighton trying to shrug off a flock of hungry seagulls hunting his chips - and in the end he is forced to throw them away and flee

"They rip rubbish open and they attack people. They're just vermin basically. The rats are probably kinder than the seagulls are."

In this week's Pet Club, a bird-loving couple share the reality of owning giant parrots, a lucky pooch gets rescued from a 20ft fall and a boa constrictor rocks up in Birmingham

Terrified locals living in Worcester have said they can no longer enjoy their gardens, or simply venture out to hang their washing to dry due to violent seagulls that dive-bomb them

Wayne Simpson had just bought the popular burger from his local chain in South Shields and was about to enjoy his first bite when a gull swooped down and snatched it from his hands

Seagulls making a homeowner's life a misery have stunned him by nesting in deterrent spike installed in the roof of his home in Devon after attacking him last year

The bird can be seen waddling unsteadily across a table as it puffs its chest out in an unusual manner, with some suggesting that its other-worldly appearance is reminiscent of a Pokemon character

Kev Wilson, 56, threw himself into the water after he and his wife saw the young child fall into the lake and become 'completely submerged'

The worried community in Barnet, North London, worked together to provide the Canada geese a paddling pool in which to swim following the loss of the lake they usually visit

Three peacocks were found dead after some residents in the Ellenborough estate in Maryport, Cumbria, complained that they were damaging their homes and vehicles

Squadron leader Ariel Valiente was flying over Ecuador and shared footage of the horrific moment to show how important it is to keep his composure under pressure

Melanie Potter Hughson said her little dog was repeatedly accosted by a seagull while playing in their garden in Broxburn, West Lothian, making the animal scared

Torvald Alexander was left £800 out of pocket and at his wits' end after a crow, he nicknamed 'Psycho', began smashing window panes of his cottage in Biggar, Lanarkshire

Daily Mirror environment editor Nada Farhoud says that ancient woodland counts for a tiny 2.5% of the UK, with up to 70% of ancient woodlands in the UK having already been lost

Corey Grieveson started work in the beautiful North Yorkshire town last summer when chip shop owner Alex Boyd, 31, decided he needed to employ a 'live seagull deterrent'

Ewan Cameron has told how he was out running when he was suddenly attacked by a buzzard who sank its talons into the back of his head and then swooped round to try and strike him again

Anna, who lives 12 miles north of Barcelona in Spain, described it as "distressing" as "hundreds of birds" flocked to a communal courtyard now full of feathers and pigeon droppings

Russia's Shiveluch volcano sent deadly ash 12 miles into the sky on Wednesday with residents urged to stay indoors and some animals unable to survive the aftermath

The neighbour leaves out large quantities of bread every morning - attracting several pigeons and gulls who land on nearby roofs and make a mess before returning again the next day