Finns trying to enjoy beaches and parks during their all-too-brief summers have been vexed by legions of geese and their droppings – the smelly mess has resisted even the most innovative solutions
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‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
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Benn Jordan saved a PNG image to a bird (an exploration on bird song and behavior)
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Once extinct in Denmark, the white stork is making a comeback with the highest number of nestlings in decades
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In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway's unique coastal ecosystem
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The questions started with the wren
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We are setting out to rewild an Icelandic wetland in a complex project involving birds, freshwater habitats and large areas of degraded peatland
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Black paint on wind turbines sharply reduces bird death but there are issues
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The most ingenious hawk in New Jersey
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New Jersey hawk develops clever hunting strategy using traffic signals
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A glass Chicago building killed thousands of migrating birds until dots were added to the windows
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Eagle hunters of Kyrgyzstan
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Where do Red Dead Redemption 2's birds go?
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Matias Faldbakken unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 2011 attacks – twelve-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island
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Dive into 125 years of Audubon magazine covers, bird by bird
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The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
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Meet the army of women saving India’s rarest stork | Wild Hope
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Apparently magpies and crows are using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to make their nests
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Coastal Peregrine falcons’ mysterious decline
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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists have theories.
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These nearly silent wind turbines have owl-inspired ‘feathers’
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The first stripy wind turbine ever turned on: It has achieved a very strange effect
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A marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean that began a decade ago killed some four million common murres in Alaska, researchers say
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World's oldest known wild bird lays egg at '74'
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Grímsey, set some 40km off Iceland's northern coast, is home to one of Europe's most remote settlements and a thriving seabird population
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How an English castle became a stork magnet
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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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Giant pigeon to loom over New York City
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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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