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"Follow Your Nose" Toucans
“Follow Your Nose!” is the familiar catch phrase of Toucan Sam, the friendly and colorful spokes-bird for Kellogg’s Fruit Loops cereal. And what a “nose” toucans have!
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Turbo Penguin
Gorgeous reaction of penguin
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Motherless Male Zebra Finches Prefer Same-Sex Mates thanks to imprinting.
The mate choice is likely the result of males 'imprinting' on their fathers, researchers say. This also happens to parrots raised by humans. They imprint on humans and want to mate with them when they mature.
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Warming threat to emperor penguins
Climate change is likely to cut Antarctica's 600,000-strong emperor penguin population by at least a fifth by 2100, a study suggests.
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To ID birds, try facial recognition
Improve your backyard birding using facial recognition software.
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Bird Brains:Public asked to spot clever birds
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is asking the public to take part in a national survey of bird intelligence.
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Hawaii's Using Lasers to Scare Endangered Birds Away From Power Lines
Hawaii has a bird problem. They keep crashing into power lines and dying. While that's not so grim when pigeons are involved, the situation gets more serious when the birds are endangered. And many of the species in Hawaii are. That's why they're busting out the lasers.
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World's biggest-ever flying bird discovered: Twice as big as the royal albatross
Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird that could be the biggest flying bird ever found. With an estimated 20- to 24-foot wingspan, the creature surpassed the previous record holder -- an extinct bird named Argentavis magnificens -- and was twice as big as the royal albatross, the largest flying bird today. Computer simulations show that the bird's long slender wings helped it stay aloft despite its enormous size.
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Second Silent Spring? Bird Declines Linked to Popular Pesticides
A popular class of insecticides has been linked to bird die-offs-a finding that parallels Rachel Carson's concerns back in 1962.
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Correlation shown between neonicotinoid pesticides and decline in bird populations in the Netherlands
The analysis indicates that pesticide use may reduce the amount of prey insects available to birds, causing the observed association, and suggests that neonicotinoids pose an even greater risk to wildlife than previously thought.
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Shooting Owls to Save Other Owls
Protecting habitat hasn't stopped the spotted owl's decline. Will shooting its rivals help?
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Hundreds of birds poisoned and killed at Bush Airport
Hundreds of birds were poisoned and killed at Bush Intercontinental Airport this past weekend as part of a “bird abatement project” that animal rights groups call cruel and inhumane. Just after daybreak on Saturday and Sunday, the I-Team captured on video something strange happening—birds dropping mysteriously from the sky in distress.
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A California comeback for the bald eagle?
A mating pair of bald eagles is the first to be discovered on San Clemente Island since eagle restoration efforts began. The national symbol disappeared from California's Channel Islands in the 1960s.
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Man driving Mercedes killed peacock with pellet gun, officials say
Officials on Tuesday said they have a possible break in the deaths of dozens of peacocks on the Palos Verdes Peninsula after a witness reported a man in a Mercedes-Benz shooting one of the birds with a pellet gun. Officials released a sketch of the suspect, seen driving a silver Mercedes sedan. He allegedly stopped at about 8:20 p.m. July 9 in the 27000 block of Eastvale Road and fired from the driver's seat, killing a peacock that was standing in a driveway.
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Smarter Than a First-Grader?
UCSB researcher shows that New Caledonian crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks
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Smarter than a first-grader? Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks
In Aesop's fable about the crow and the pitcher, a thirsty bird happens upon a vessel of water, but when he tries to drink from it, he finds the water level out of his reach. Not strong enough to knock over the pitcher, the bird drops pebbles into it -- one at a time -- until the water level rises enough for him to drink his fill. New research demonstrates the birds' intellectual prowess may be more fact than fiction.
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Hummingbirds edge out helicopters in hover contest
When it comes to flight, nature just has the edge on engineers.
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Secret language of penguins decoded
African penguins communicate feelings such as hunger, anger and loneliness through six distinctive vocal calls, according to scientists who have observed the birds' behaviour in captivity.
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Carnivorous Dinosaurs Shrank For Millions Of Years To Evolve Into Present-Day Birds
The ability of a certain type of dinosaur to evolve rapidly into pre-historic birds helped them survive mass extinction.
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Public concern over aggressive Peterhead gulls 'led into life of crime'
Aberdeenshire Council has been forced to take action against “aggressive” gulls harassing pedestrians in Peterhead. A recent public consultation revealed that gulls are a “key concern” for residents in the coastal town. The local authority has enlisted falconer Iain Davidson and his hawk, Storm, who will patrol the town centre from Friday. Peterhead Town Centre project officer, Heather Barclay, warned that some gulls are being led into a “life of crime”.
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