Better know a bird: The wild and kinky mating rituals of the crested auklet
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Avian teachers: on what we can learn from birds - Excerpt from Birding to Change the World
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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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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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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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Prison can be a hostile place. Then the birds came.
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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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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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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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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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Crow-plagued California city turns to lasers and boomboxes to clear the air
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Australian musk ducks have the ability to call you a ‘bloody fool,’ research finds
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How a board game about birds became a surprise blockbuster
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Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests
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When travel restrictions stopped bird-watchers from visiting the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö, hidden ecosystem dynamics were revealed
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Hummingbirds get noticeably fatter when they feed
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The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
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Canada's sparrows are singing a new song. You'll hear it soon
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See the light – why midsummer birding in Norway is life-affirming
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When is a dove a Kiwi? Record-setting bird blown from Australia to a petroleum processing ship off the coast of New Zealand killed by New Zealand authorities on arrival
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How climate change threatens Iceland's iconic puffins – and the community that has gone from hunting and eating them, to rescuing them
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Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
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Survival by degrees: 389 bird species on the brink
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Forest restoration leads to major win for the Kirtland’s Warbler
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Marauding cat destroys colony of threatened Australian seabirds
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Once nearly dead as the dodo, California condor comeback reaches 1,000 chicks
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Rare New Zealand parakeet population doubles after 'epic' breeding season
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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The unseasonable cool has left Colorado a bird-watchers paradise right now
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To drive eagles away from deadly wind turbines, researchers turn to sound
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Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds
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First nesting behavior of released ʻalalā, almost two years post-release
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An interview with Game of Thrones' supervising sound editor about how bird sounds are chosen for the show
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Scientists alarmed by disappearing penguins at Antarctic breeding grounds
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The Egg Collection at the Field Museum of Natural History
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A rare trio of bald eagles — two dads, one mom — are raising eaglets together in one nest
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Fantasy birding is real, and it's spectacular
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New plan would return California condors to northwest skies
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The science of migratory birds
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