When is a bird a ‘birb’? An extremely important guide.
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Has anyone else seen a LOT of dead birds on the side of the road this year?
I feel like seeing dead birds was very rare before but it feels quite common this year. Maybe I'm just driving more in a different area this year and the rate was surprisingly low last year, but I...
I feel like seeing dead birds was very rare before but it feels quite common this year. Maybe I'm just driving more in a different area this year and the rate was surprisingly low last year, but I really feel like I'm constantly seeing dead birds over the last few weeks.
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Decades of effort restore steelhead and salmon passage on California's Alameda Creek
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As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers
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White-tailed eagles are returning to southern England after 240 years
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Japan is using $4,000 animatronic wolves to scare off bears, and can't make them fast enough
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Timmy the stranded whale is dead. Please, let’s put animal welfare first and human emotion second.
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‘Monster Wolf’ robots deployed in Japan amid spike in bear attacks
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A young walrus who became something of a celebrity as he toured the Scottish coastline has now crossed the North Sea and arrived in Norway
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In a village in Norway, humans representing flora and fauna of all kinds meet to reimagine ‘nature-centric governance’
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San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time ever
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The man who made San Francisco's flock of wild parrots famous dies at 74
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Researchers in Copenhagen are actively monitoring bat activity and traffic conditions along a road to evaluate how red-spectrum LEDs from street lights affect local wildlife
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Wolves killed more than 2,100 reindeer in Finland last year – herders suspect Russian wolf numbers have exploded after hunters were sent to the frontline in Ukraine
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Scientists think that Svalbard polar bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey, including reindeer and walruses
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J. David Bamberger, Church’s Chicken tycoon who made land conservation his mission, dies at 97
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You're not crazy. The bugs are disappearing.
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A new take on Colombia’s cocaine hippos
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Norwegian fisherman creates urban lodgings for gull species threatened by climate change, predators and avian flu in their natural habitats. It's booked out.
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In Alaska, fishing skippers and hungry orcas vie for halibut pulled from the deep
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Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
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Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects
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'It was the start of a new movement': the Dutch rewilding project that took a dark turn
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Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than five billion sea stars
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Hover flies are long-distance travellers
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Wolves have returned to Denmark, and not everyone is happy about it
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Jane Goodall, chimp expert, dies at 91
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‘Grue jay’ hybrid spotted in Texas
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Fat Bear Week is here early, and the bears are fat and playful
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Stones have been ‘overfished’ from the sea – here's how Denmark's rocky reefs are being restored
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Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian rat species trained to sniff out danger and disease
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: adopt a baby elephant
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The fight to stop poaching: what if we’ve been doing it wrong? (2018)
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From sea to table to sea: How recycled oyster shells are restoring the Alabama coast
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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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Researchers discover stunning ecological changes after reintroducing wolves to national park: young Aspens are growing again
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Climate change made a two-week-long heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland around 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely, study says
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In Norway's far north, members of the Sámi minority and environmental activists are trying to block the construction of a copper mine
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Florida snake hunters deploy robotic toy rabbits to capture invasive Burmese pythons
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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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The Icelandic landscape is changing, and it's changing us
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Not every day that Father Christmas briefs his elves about the hazards of sunstroke, but this summer northern Finland has seen temperatures hover around 30°C for days on end
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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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A passage of water in the North Sea known as the Skagerrak is a hotspot for young Greenland sharks, according to a new study. But what are the elusive animals doing there?
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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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Beaver activists claim they are 'doing God's work'
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US cattle ranchers may have to relearn how to fight an old enemy — the New World screwworm
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Decades of searching and a chance discovery: Why finding Leadbeater’s possum in New South Wales is such big news
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The impossible predicament of the death newts
18 votes