A 17-year-old silver crested cockatoo has reportedly adopted few eggs, which her owner Geoff Grewcock bought them as Easter gifts for friends and family. Pippa is not allowing anyone to touch her eggs, which she has started trying to hatch and when anyone attempts to come near to her eggs, she starts squawking and flapping her wings in violence.

Scientists removed three peregrine falcon eggs from beneath the Bay Bridge Friday. They were worried that once the eggs hatched, the chicks would fall onto the roadway or into the San Francisco Bay. The eggs were perched about 200 feet above the San Francisco Bay. A digital monitor found that two of the eggs had heartbeats. They will be given to foster falcons until they are ready to be returned to the wild.

Officers at Seattle Animal Shelter have rescued 110 parakeets that were apparently caught and confined in one huge cage by a man and kept in the living room of his one-bedroom apartment home. The discovery was made Tuesday after a law enforcement officer with the Seattle Humane Society conducted a welfare check at the apartment following several complaints of noisy birds by the neighbors. Neil Deruyter, an animal control officer with the society described the man in his 50s and said that he had been collecting the birds for about five years, according to Seattlepi. com reports.

The Park District officials in Chicago have joined hands with a La Grange-based agency to get rid of the growing number of Canada geese in the city. According to the officials, the messy water-birds have become a major nuisance factor in city parks and need volunteers from the public to help them balance their overgrowing population. To spread awareness and recruit volunteers to help with the mission, park officials are organizing a seminar on Saturday in which people will be educated about the details of geese habitats, their mating habits and life cycle. After the theory training, volunteers will be paired with employees of Wild Goose Chase as they hunt for the nests of the geese.

Chinese scientists have manufactured a new device that is capable of controlling the flight of birds via microelectrodes implanted in their brains. The microelectrodes are used to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down. According to state-run media in China, this is the first such successful experiment by the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology.