Tag: BIRDS
Artist Rick Silva, whose new media landscapes were on view at TRANSFER Gallery last year, has just launched a new project — The Silva Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future. The 18 short videos 30 seconds in length depict fantastical birds or their parts in flight — a cube of ruffling feathers, sleek swallows diving […]
Video artist and RISD professor Dennis Hlynsky films birds flying, then composites frames together so that we see their flight paths outlined — kind of like a mouse pointer with trails turned all the way up. The results are quietly gorgeous. According to Hlynsky, the video above, of starlings congregating os some power lines, “gets good […]
According to New York Times report, mockingbirds have been terrorizing visitors at Greenpoint’s Transmitter Park lately, hovering over people, pecking at them, and generally making a ruckus. One man describes hearing “a wail, like a battle cry,” before a bird swooped down at him, and another says the birds were “were dive-bombing me, and flying at […]
We always knew there was something about those pigeons… New research reveals that human and bird brains are wired in a remarkably similar way — despite the fact that we’ve evolved down completely separate paths for hundreds of millions of years. A team from Imperial College London made this discovery when they made the first-ever […]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a permit to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to kill over 90 species of bird within New York State this year, ANIMAL has learned. The birds slated for killing include owls, herons, hawks, and woodpeckers, in addition to the slaughter of Canada geese that has been widely […]
