To top it all off, the King of Saxony Bird of Paradise sounds as strange as it looks, making noises that sound like screeching, static and rattles.

Another small bird with some impressive plumage, the tiny male King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise sports two scalloped plumes ...

This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. First comes the Noise, the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard ...

In one exception, “Chapelwaite,” a 2021 television series based on King’s “Jerusalem’s Lot,” the characters explicitly discuss the birds’ behaviors, so that viewers understand the ...

He then spent the next 7 years in South America researching zoology and botany on the orders of the King of Saxony. Hering, however, continued working in homeopathic medicine at hospitals and a leper ...

His current passion is building terrariums. He dreams of going to Papua New Guinea to see the King of Saxony Bird of Paradise and travelling to the Philippines to see the Philippine eagle and robber ...

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When the daughters reply that they don’t see the need for it, the old king bursts out: “O, reason not the need!” To consign birds to oblivion is to forget what we’re the children of.

The glorious King Jan III Sobieski dies. Poland holds a vote, and the Prince de Conti, from the House of Bourbon, is elected. But before he arrives to Poland to take his crown, August of Saxony, who ...

On the heels of the Marine Art Auction that saw three lots of scrimshaw from the Thomas Mittler Collection sell for over $100,000, and the Fine and Decorative Art auction, where a Patek Philippe watch ...

Ranjit Singh Boparan, the tycoon nicknamed the “Chicken King”, blasted the Chancellor’s Budget as ... which processes more ...