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Banded Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus) perched on a branch in Ecuador, South America.

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Cuckoos mimic the sound of musk hogs to avoid being eaten

The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig-like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry

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Birds flying over vineyard

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Magpies recruited to safeguard vineyards from grape-eating birds

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A male cockatoo with a stick

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Birds play sick jungle beat with drumsticks they make themselves

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House finch nest with eggs

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Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks

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eggs of different sizes and colours

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Bird eggs may be shaped by the way their mother flies

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skyscrapers

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Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head

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Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

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Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

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Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

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Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

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Side-by-side comparison of an Egyptian vulture with and without the mud make-up

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Vultures smear their faces in red mud which they use as makeup

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Polar bear eating eggs

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Polar bears shift from seals to bird eggs as Arctic ice melts

The habitat overlap of polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals, is disappearing and the bears are instead getting closer to nesting birds

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Eggs four times bigger than ostriches’ reveal a giant dinosaur

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Lazarus species: Five cool animals we wrongly believed extinct

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