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Golden- Winged Warbler
A strikingly patterned warbler of leafy second growth and swamp edges. Once common in the northeast, it has been declining recently in southern parts of its breeding range. As it disappears, its close relative the Blue-winged Warbler has been advancing north. The Blue-wing may be driving the Golden-wing out of the best habitats, but the situation is not well understood. The two species interbreed, creating distinctive hybrid types known as "Brewster's" and "Lawrence's" warblers."
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Colorful 'Ghost' Bird Finally Caught in Photos
After decades of hiding from humans, the rare moustached kingfisher was recently photographed for the first time. Now that we see how beautiful it is, maybe we'll save
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Zoologger: DJ frogs sing like birds, remixing tunes on the hop
Tiny green-blooded vocalists croon among the forest vegetation on humid monsoon nights, composing a different melody every time they sing
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Tracking British Columbia's Secretive Sea Wolf
National Geographic photographers reveal their intimate encounters with these unique coastal predators.
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Scientists Play Catch up as New Chemicals Contaminate Great Lakes Birds
Stain repellent and fire retardant chemicals that scientists know little about are increasingly showing up in herring gull eggs around the Great Lakes, spurring concern for potential health impacts.
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Mustached Bird Photographed for First Time, Then Promptly Killed
The first ever photographs of the elusive male moustached kingfisher were recently released by the American Museum of Natural History. They show a vibrant blue adult bird in apparent good health. There is a sad footnote to the images, however, because researchers elected to kill the endangered bird in order to further study it.
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Scientists Unveil Comprehensive Bird Family Tree
One finding: Most land birds evolved from a predatory ancestor —meaning chickadees, woodpeckers and such are traceable to a meat-eater
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7 Birds Who Will Never Leave You and 1 That Really Ought To
We pay our respects to the birds who never migrate.
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Brant Geese-Priority Bird
No other geese nest as far north as the Brant, and few migrate as far. These small geese are characteristic of coastal areas in summer and winter; most birdwatchers know them from seeing their wintering flocks along both of our coasts. Traveling between their summer and winter outposts, they may fly at altitudes of several thousand feet as they cross great expanses of land or open ocean.
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Measurements of Dinosaur Body Temperatures Shed New Light on 150-Year Debate
Were dinosaurs really fast, aggressive hunters like the ones depicted in the movie "Jurassic World"?
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Fossilised eggshells help crack the mystery of how dinosaurs kept warm
We’re slowly getting used to the idea that some dinosaurs may have looked more like birds than reptiles. But there’s been a long-running debate about what dinosaurs were like on the inside – and specifically on how they kept warm. Were they warm-blooded like modern birds and mammals, or cold-blooded like modern lizards and crocodiles?
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Antibiotic resistance: myths and misunderstandings
I’ve been involved in a few discussions of late on science-based sites around yon web on antibiotic resistance and agriculture–specifically, the campaign to get fast food giant Subway to stop using meat raised on antibiotics, and a graphic by CommonGround using Animal Health Institute data, suggesting that agricultural animals aren’t an important source of resistant bacteria.…
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Siberian jays can recognize unfamiliar, distant relatives
Can animals recognize distantly related, unfamiliar individuals of the same species? Siberian jays possess this ability as evolutionary biologists from the University of Zurich recently could demonstrate for the first time. This bird species belongs to the crow family and is able to accurately assess the degree of kinship to unfamiliar individuals. This ability provides advantages when sharing food and other forms of cooperation.
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See What Makes Owls So Quiet and So Deadly
For owls, life and death relies on the ability to control noise. Owl wings and feathers have special adaptations to muffle their sound. It’s stealth, not speed that makes them deadly.
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9 Things You Didn't Know About the Sand Cat
These wild felines max out the adorable scale. Boasting fluffy ears, big eyes and tiny noses, it's easy to mistake the sand cat for a charming kitten.
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Meet the Largest Owl Species in North America
This huge gray owl species is the largest, but not in the way you might think.
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How a swarm of honeybees cook a giant hornet alive
The little Japanese honeybee and the Japanese giant hornet are the David and Goliath of nature.
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10 Bizarre and Beautiful Bird Courtship Dances
Birds exhibit some of the most spectacular courtship rituals in the animal kingdom. Here's a sampling of the odd, the graceful, the awkward and the impressive.
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Bird's Lightning 'Tap Dance' Caught on Camera
Using high-speed cameras, scientists glimpse songbirds doing a rapid-fire dance that is invisible to the naked eye.
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Mysterious parasite may actually be a tiny jellyfish gone awry
“There is a thin, semantic line separating weird and beautiful. And that line is covered in jellyfish.” By Rachel Feltman.
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