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Archaeopteryx

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Dinosaur fossil may be a whole new species of the first birds

A fossil of the dinosaur Archaeopteryx is so unlike any other specimens that it belongs to a new species – and could confirm that the animals were early birds

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Eurasian cranes

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Bird-like lungs may have helped dinosaurs rule the world

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A male peacock

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Male birds can be good singers or good looking, but not both

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fairy-wren

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Birds can learn to understand the meanings of other species' calls

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Penguin

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Hundreds of ancient mummified penguins found in Antarctic graveyard

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loggerhead shrike

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Butcherbird uses vicious whiplash technique to kill its prey

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The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old

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The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old

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Male peacocks can make females' heads vibrate at a distance

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Male peacocks can make females' heads vibrate at a distance

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Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water

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Bent bird feathers repair themselves when soaked in water

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The birds of South Georgia are finally safe from marauding rats

Earth

The birds of South Georgia are finally safe from marauding rats

Invasive rats have cut a swathe through the birds living on the island of South Georgia, but a decade-long project has now eradicated every last rat

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Earth

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

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Earth

World's biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish

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Life

How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

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Life

Far from land: The emerging story of seabirds on the ocean

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