Birdchick Podcast #86: Mathematical Pigeons & One OLD Chickadee

OMG, we can all finally relax, someone claims to have solved the mystery behind The Birds (the Hitchcock movie and the Daphne du Maurier story). A black-capped chickadee banded in Minnesota is the oldest on record...by four months.

Pigeons (aka flying rats) can do math and are smart like monkeys.

That wacky North Korean media claims that roosting magpies are really hanging out to mourn the death of Kim Jong-il.