Better know a bird: The wild and kinky mating rituals of the crested auklet
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What sort of pets did medieval people keep?
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Recreating dog food from the last 2,000 years
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When Rob Barrett surveyed one of Norway's largest seabird colonies in the '70s there were too many birds to count – stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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Sphen, partner in Australian same-sex penguin couple, dies
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Urban birds may be spreading drug-resistant ‘superbugs’, research shows. Wild birds are more likely to be carriers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria if they live close to humans, says study.
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Giant pigeon to loom over New York
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A rare burst of billions of cicadas will rewire our ecosystems for years to come. The arrival of Brood XIX and Brood XIII will send shockwaves through forest food webs.
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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Inside the surreal world of $20,000 pet portraits
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Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe
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Investigating touchscreen ergonomics to improve tablet-based enrichment for parrots
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Avian teachers: on what we can learn from birds - Excerpt from Birding to Change the World
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Why is it so hard to tell the sex of a dinosaur?
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Pigeon suspected of being Chinese spy released by police in India after being detained for eight months
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Magpies swoop bald men more often, eight-year-old's viral survey finds
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As the sun falls over a vast Danish marshland, more than a million starlings undulate in mesmerising murmurations – but how they do it remains mysterious
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John Oliver backs ‘weird, puking’ pūteketeke as he takes New Zealand’s bird of century poll global
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These American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers
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Study of multiple species shows birds with more complex vocal skills are better problem-solvers
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Cats with bird flu? The threat grows.
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Amid steep global bird declines, farmers create refuges
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The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate?
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The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King's Guard
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Prison can be a hostile place. Then the birds came.
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Female California condors can reproduce without mating, joining a list that includes sharks, rays and lizards
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A flightless parrot is returning to mainland New Zealand after a forty-year absence
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Egg 'signatures' allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time, study finds
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Chasing the ivory-billed woodpecker
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Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find
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Parrots taught to video call each other become less lonely, finds research
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Total recall: A brilliant memory helps chickadees survive
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The 2023 Audubon Photography Awards: Winners and honorable mentions
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How to befriend a crow?
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Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers
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Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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With ships, birds find an easier way to travel
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'Plasticosis': A new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds
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When the sun sets and the magic ends, these birds wreak havoc
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Mumbai embraces its booming flamingo population
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How online mobs act like flocks of birds
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Why it's perfectly normal to see baby puffins thrown off cliffs in Iceland each year
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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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The absurd mystery of flamingo no. 492
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Crow-plagued California city turns to lasers and boomboxes to clear the air
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Birds aren't real, or are they? Inside a Gen Z conspiracy movement
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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How a board game about birds became a surprise blockbuster
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