Sunday, May 31, 2015







Found across the world, birds range from small and difficult-to-spot songbirds to the majestic bald eagle.











 Though a few birds are flightless, most fly and all have feathers. Typically birds are adapted to have low take-off weights and high power-to-weight ratios. Many species undertake long migrations every year.

Friday, May 29, 2015

birds world

he Birds" is a novelette by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of seabirds in kamikaze missions. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of World War II. By the end of the story it has become clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault.

The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name, released in 1963, the same year that The Apple Tree was reprinted as The Birds and Other Stories.

In 2009, Irish playwright Conor McPherson adapted the story for the stage at Dublin's Gate Theatre.