Cynthia Gill's bird barn is hallowed ground. Strangers aren't allowed inside, and she only visits to feed and check on her 97 birds when she absolutely needs to. Because breeding birds is tricky ...

Trying to describe an adult macaw could consume a dictionary of adjectives–exotic, colorful, intelligent, powerful, not to mention loud when in full squawk. But macaw breeder Charlie Hume’s favorite ...

Elaine Bernstein wants a bird in her hand. But bird breeder Jim Jones says you just can’t rush mother nature. On Tuesday, a Palm Beach County judge tried to smooth ruffled feathers by requiring Jones ...

“If these chickens could vote, they’d want to be here, not at Foster Farms,” Arlin Strange says as a few hundred members of the putative electorate mill about his feet. “Here they’re guaranteed two ...

A century or more before the Spanish set foot in the Americas, birds of a multi-hued feather were bred together in what’s now a desolate part of northwestern Mexico. That, at least, is the implication ...