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Australian black swan

Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand

25 July 2017

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

Man amid cluster of fake ducks on the sand

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

24 July 2017

A fun experiment with hundreds of plastic ducks on a beach shows that AI trained on drone photos could seriously improve seabird colony counts

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