After years of pressure from animal advocates, dozens of food companies have committed themselves to “cage-free” eggs produced by hens not living in the cramped quarters known as battery cages. Now, ...

IT is the season of singing in Nigeria. And the birds are singing all the way in the post-colonial aviary. They sing all day and all night long, these strange birds of destiny. The caged birds of ...

IN spite of all that has been and will be said and written against it, the practice of keeping birds in confinement is so popular and so wide-spread, that there is no chance of its coming to an end.

OAKLAND -- Armed with nets and cages, workers at the Oakland Zoo will continue to search the grounds Thursday for six exotic birds, including an endangered hooded vulture, that escaped from their ...