ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - It appears Polly does not want an X-Ray. A veterinary technician from an Orange County animal hospital was tasked with giving a bird an X-ray. Unfortunately, in the video ...

That, at least, is the conclusion reached by workers at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia (Solano County) when they viewed an X-ray image they took of a sick mallard.

For the study, the researchers used X-ray videos of a present-day bird—a helmeted guineafowl—to precisely measure the ...