An injured bird dangling upside down from a utility pole was rescued along with its chicks in Russia. Footage shows a stork ...

Birds standing on a wire, not pecking at anything, is not a risk unless it touches another wire at the same time or touches the ground. “A bird standing on a single-phase wire is not going to ...

Birds can sit on one wire, no problem. But if a bird touches a second wire, it opens a path of electricity right through the bird’s body.

Electrocuted, flaming bird carcasses are falling off of power lines and causing wildfires across the U.S. This surprisingly common phenomenon has been responsible for at least three Colorado ...

An Iron Range city councilor who has a “long and contentious history with Minnesota Power” allegedly cut a wire on his property last week, knocking out power to three towns. Joseph Christopher ...

The utility-box murals were intended to deter taggers. Two months into the completion, however, many of Talavera-Ballón’s birds have already been defaced with graffiti. Still, he finds joy in painting ...

Munro took a field recorder and captured sounds like bird calls, the twang of a trellis wire, and the splash of rainwater hitting the grapes. He then manipulated those sounds in his music software to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A utility company told the federal government Friday that it will fix any power lines in Wyoming and other states that threaten to electrocute migratory birds, especially ...

SAN FRANCISCO – In the classic film “The Birds,’’ flocks of crows and other species suddenly and viciously attack people for no apparent reason. Now another Bay Area-based mystery has ...

At a rate-increase hearing last month, a utility official pointed a finger at unexpected culprits for these "blue sky" outages: soaring raptors and bushy-tailed squirrels.