Tag Archives : birds

The artists at London Fieldworks have developed an innovative bird housing concept. They are calling it “The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven”. It opened recently as part of the Secret Garden Project by UP Projects. It is hoped that this initiative will develop into a haven of biodiversity and create a new public awareness of the ecological [...]

In times like these when there is hardly any place to grow trees, builders have come to realize how important it is to have a green space within the apartment block, or within a villa. If you have a tree near you, you must have observed that it is almost an eco-system within itself. You could see dozens of species of insects, birds, and creepy crawlies [...]

Some people just need to glance through a recipe in order to confirm the proportions of ingredients and cook a dish as good as the cook-book. I envy them because I am not like them. I need to keep referring back to the book and check the recipe repeatedly while cooking a new dish. I have to depend on the Epicurious iPad App for looking up recipes in [...]

Welcome to the pet world! Pet owners can heave a sigh of relief as their pets can fly now in Pet Airways (PAWS), an airline, which is exclusively designed for pets (cats and dogs) to fly to and from New York City, Baltimore/Washington D.C, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. Hitherto, pets have been pit in the cargo section whenever they fly on an airplane.This [...]

Did you often wonder at how those tiny birds literally fly from one continent to the other? They do this twice a year migrating from a cold place to a warmer place. A new study conducted by a group of researchers Wojciechowski and colleague Berry Pinshow at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland revealed that the birds reduce their night time [...]

Given the current scenario, where cities are fast turning into concrete jungles, Toronto Botanic Gardens is a sight for sore eyes. The major attractions are the themed gardens, Dailia Daze and summer showcase for birds. The wooden holed heart structure that appears above is actually birdhouse design that bagged the first position in a competition organized [...]

For at least five miles, one can witness different intertwining plants, trees, creepers, ferns, mosses, and orchids that seem to be in a perpetual struggle for light and life. A tiny hummingbird nest holds an egg about to hatch and a baby already born. Bats fluff their wings while under the shelter of a giant leaf. A big black tarantula with orange [...]