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Crab eating bird

Life

Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it

Coconut crabs were thought to be purely opportunistic scavengers, but these huge arthropods are actually active predators that may dominate their island homes

News

Bird of prey

Life

People who illegally kill birds of prey are getting away with it

News

Dark-eyed junco

Life

Female birds that used to be silent are now singing like males

News

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

Life

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

News

A tui singing in a tree

Life

Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing

News

A cloud of flying insects

Earth

Steep decline of wasps and other flying nasties is a bad sign

Comment

flying bird

Technology

Drone designers accidentally explain colour of albatross wings

News

Ostriches on the savanna

Life

Why the ostrich is the only living animal with four kneecaps

News

Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time

Earth

Secret lifestyle of the dodo revealed for the first time

News

Australian black swan

Life

Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand

A larger relative of Australia’s black swan thrived in New Zealand – until humans arrived and helped bring about its extinction

News

Life

Fake duck test shows drones and AI beat humans at bird census

News

Life

Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

News

Life

Swinging birds play with rhythm like jazz musicians

News

Life

Chinese dinosaurs make a historic trip to the UK

Culture

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