Three cheers for our fine feathered friends! Here's a look at strange news stories involving parrots, chickens and other flapping creatures.
Getty ImagesA penguin was rescued after being stolen from an Australian water park by men who also allegedly tried to swim with a dolphin when the park was closed.
Who says China isn't a bastion for Civil Liberties? At least their gay penguins can marry.
Brazilian airport authorities stopped a man attempting to smuggle 200 canaries in a bag, 65 of which were dead.
Max, a five-year-old African Grey, mimics car alarms and cell phone rings, but local school children have given him s playground vocabulary that has zoo keeper Peter Hansom confounded. "Sometimes he will just say 'hello' or 'bye', but as often as not it's 'f*** off'."
Luckily, the penguins had formal attire.
Six mallard ducklings fell into a storm drain in Gosforth, Newcastle. The mother duck couldn’t fit through the grate, so she walked along the path of the sewer pipe, following the sounds of duckling cries -- and rescued her babies.
A family of swans has become quite the stars in Perranporth, England, where motorists and pedestrians report seeing them use the crosswalk as they make their way to and from a local lake.
Cosmetic surgery is not just for humans. A bald eagle shot three years ago by a poacher has received a much needed beak job.
Yosuke - a parrot in Japan - flew out of his cage. Luckily, he'd learned to recite his address and told a veterinarian where he lived.
Scientists have caught on tape an Antarctic fur seal trying to have sex with a king penguin -- and it wasn't consensual.
