Twenty years ago, Bob Allen gave his wife, Edda, a bit of a special birthday gift: a couple of peacocks. Since then the couple has raised the wild birds, whose colorful feathers grace the lawns of the ...

Thirteen-year-old Ella Peoples raised a baby peacock from birth, doing homework and playing hide and seek with the bird. The peacock, named Willow, now lives at the Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Halifax ...

Baby birds come in two styles: precocial or altricial. Precocial chicks, such as ducks, geese, sandpipers and turkeys, hatch from large, well-endowed eggs after long incubations. They can see, run, ...