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a seagull near a man on a bench holding chips

Life

Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips

In experiments conducted in UK seaside towns, only 26 per cent of herring gulls tried to steal chips when they were being watched

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Heracles inexpectatus lived in New Zealand

Life

World’s largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago

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Artist's impression of two feathered oviraptor dinosaurs

Life

Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers

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hot wings

Life

Dark feathers give birds hot wings that may save energy during flight

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reconstruction of ancient bird

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Flightless bird three times the size of an ostrich used to roam Europe

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pot bird

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This South American potoo bird can camouflage itself as a branch

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34 hen harrier chicks fledged in England in 2018

Environment

Plan to remove hen harrier eggs and raise them in captivity criticised

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Technology

Working hypothesis: from buzzwords to Amazon workers

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Archaeopteryx

Life

The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined

Features

Bird feeder

Life

Putting a bird feeder in your garden really does help wildlife

A long-term study in the UK suggests that in urban areas, populations of birds that use bird feeders have increased while those of other species remain unchanged

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Life

Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades

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Life

Meet the white-tailed eagles making a comeback in the UK

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Life

Weird chromosome may have spurred evolution of thousands of songbirds

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Life

How did the ancient Egyptians catch and mummify millions of ibises?

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