Sweet,peaceful stars filled the sky as the night birds sang softly, and tiny insects buzzed in the soft air.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Later,after he had returned to England, he would be shocked to find that these very different birds were all finches.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Land development and agriculture are just two uses of natural resources that change and destroy environments that birds need.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

It describes how a hunter can use both barrels of a shotgun to bring down two birds very quickly.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

It inspired me to make a drawing which was a flock of varied birds which represented mankind and humanity.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

He says they are part of the genome of the last common ancestor of all birds,frogs, dinosaurs and mammals.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Only one who is deaf can understand the loving way I talked to my dolls,to the stones, to birds and animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

I have over one hundred different kinds of birds from all over the United States in my study at home."

VOA: special.2010.04.03

An airplane had flown over the area where the birds were kept and spread a powerful chemical called DDT.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

For example, permanent populations of Canada geese in North America have increased three hundred percent in eighteen years to four million birds.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

For her the idea that birds have come from dinosaurs is just common knowledge and there's nothing surprising in that at all."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Miss Carson argued that this kind of pollution would result in ever-decreasing populations of birds and other wildlife.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

The report says up to one billion birds die each year from flying into objects like power lines, windows and tall buildings.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

The Kuwaiti artist Farah Behbehani uses different traditions of Arabic writing to illustrate "The Conference of the Birds,"

VOA: special.2009.03.11