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Hellroter Ara oder Scharlachara, Ara macao, auseinadergefaltete Fl??gel sowie Hals und Schwanz, wie viele Ppageienarten f??llt er durch die extreme Farbigkeit seines Gefieders auf, sein Gefieder ist vorwie gend leuchtend rot, w??hrend der Ansatz der Oberfl??geldecken gelb und im weiteren Verlauf gr??n ist. Schwungfedern und R??cken sind leuichtend blau, er ist einer der gr????ten Papageien der Welt, Verbreitung: von Mexiko bis Zentralbrasilien, Lebensraum: feuchte Tieflandw??lder, Lichtungen, Savannen und Flu??ufer, L??nge von Fl??gelspitze zu Fl??gelspitze: 110 cm, Kopf-Schwanz 85 cm, Focus stack aus 3 Einzelaufnahmen

Life

Close-up photographs capture feathers' dazzle factor

Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch photographed various feathers housed at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin to create these vibrant images

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Screenshot of livestream of bald eagles Jackie and Shadow nesting in a pine tree in California. Credit: Friends of Big Bear Valley

Life

Watch rare livestream of bald eagles nesting on eggs in California

News

Flying robot with claws ready

Technology

Watch this robot bird use a talon-like claw to land safely on a perch

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Researcher Ryan Askren with a collared Canada goose

Life

Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away

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Wilson's Bird of Paradise Plate26_futuyma_Wilson's bop

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How Birds Evolve review: In-depth and passionate

Culture

honey badger eating beeswax

Life

A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax

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A razorbill in Italian waters

Environment

Hundreds of razorbills have been turning up far from home in Italy

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Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous

Life

Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

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Great bustards

Life

Bustards may use plants to treat STIs during the breeding season

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Seagull

Life

Why do seagulls have dark wings? It may help them glide in the air

Gliding birds tend to have long and thin wings, but seagulls seem to have a trick that lets them soar on short, wider wings

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Life

The migrating birds that roam the world to live in an eternal summer

Comment

Life

Scientists finally realised female robins sing just as well as males

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Life

Erect-crested penguins always reject their first egg and lay another

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Earth

Dazzling photograph of pink-breasted galahs in Australian desert

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