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    Opinion | Bird Flu Is Already Here. Just Look at the Millions Killed.

    Millions of birds have died because of bird flu. Human activity has helped make the virus...

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    Neom planners reportedly fear its huge mirrored structure called The Line will kill a 'significant number of birds'

    The "horizontal skyscraper" that's part of Saudi Arabia's Neom is on a migration route used by...

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    Yoink

    A little activity from a Common Kestrel nest near Windsbach, Germany.

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    ‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

    Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient customTraditional...

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    The Battle for Attention

    Nathan Heller on the secretive Order of the Third Bird: There is a long-standing, widespread belief...

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    Giant raptor footprints found in China

    Massive dinosaur fossil footprints have been found in southern China. They were left behind by a...

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    An emerging new picture of animal consciousness

    The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness , signed by 88 researchers, asks us to consider...

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    Clever bird vigorously "stirs" customers coffee with spoon

    This clever bird doesn't play around when it comes to stirring coffee—or at least try to....

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    Conservation science observers welcome EPA, but concerned about delays to law reform

    It’s been a big week for Australia when it comes to environmental protection, but while observers...

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    Birds sing in their sleep – and now we can decipher their dreams

    Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was...

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    Tanya Plibersek rejects Toondah Harbour project over impact on globally significant wetlands

    Walker Corporation had proposed 3,000 apartments, marina and shops for the site, which is a critical...

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    Triassic dinosaurs and other animals grew up fast

    To make it in a tough world, the first dinosaurs had to grow up fast according...

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    Scientists construct new tree of life for modern birds

    The largest and most complete study of modern bird genomes to date has resulted in the...

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    Earliest evidence of loss of seasonal egg laying in chickens

    While some of us are still asking “why did the chicken cross the road?” an international...

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    What is Australia's most commonly spotted bird?

    Lorikeet, miner or magpie — what is Australia's most commonly spotted bird? Last October, 60,000 people...

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    Hurroo: the amazing bird drummers of the tropical rainforests are under threat

    Do women prefer drummers? Among a population of rare bird drummers in relict rainforest in Far...

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    New research shows magpies aren’t smart by nature, but nurture

    It’s well known that Australian magpies aren’t your average bird brain. They’re actually quite intelligent. But...

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    Emperor penguins are seemingly in decline but it might not be all doom yet

    A multinational research exercise has confirmed emperor penguins are in decline in Antarctica. But the reasons...

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    Birdwatch: rare black-faced spoonbill turns up in Hong Kong wetland

    Soon it will head back north to the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea where...

  • The Last Word On Nothing | Science Poem: The Birds of Hyde Park

    Long before I knew that science writing could be a job, I wrote science poems. A...

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    More than 400,000 songbirds killed by organised crime in Cyprus

    Report links rise in birds trapped for human consumption to cuts in anti-poaching resources in area...

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    Striking "lost" bird species found and featured in first-known photo

    No-one has seen the Yellow-crested Helmetshrike for about 20 years. That changed when researchers embarked on...