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Watch a worker at Maui's bird conservation center and her neighbor hold off wildfire to save critically endangered animals
The Maui Bird Conservation Center houses some of the rarest birds in the world. It was in the path …
Gabbi Shaw
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Some turkeys are so big they have a hard time walking, but scientists have found ways to breed healthier birds
Fast-growing turkeys may also be less nutritious with striped, pale, slimy meat. Heritage breeds th…
Emily Swaim
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A first-time van traveler spent 7 days driving across the US bird-watching. He's now hooked on the lifestyle.
Harshit Bajpai traveled across the East Coast recording birdcalls in a tiny van, and it all started…
Monica Humphries
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Why did some birds survive when dinosaurs went extinct? Molting feathers could hold a clue
Feathers preserved in amber could suggest some ancient birds molted differently than modern birds, …
Jenny McGrath
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1,000 dead birds rained from the Chicago sky after a 'nightmare' mass collision with a building that activists have been warning about for decades
Activists are now calling on the McCormick Place Lakeside Center in Chicago to take measures to pre…
Katie Hawkinson
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A Miami zoo had to apologize to New Zealand after thousands online said it offended the country with its treatment of kiwi birds
Pāora, a kiwi hatched at Zoo Miami, spent time under bright lights while guests pet the bird as par…
Hannah Getahun
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A bird flu outbreak is killing bald eagles and driving up egg prices
Experts are worried about an outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious flu strain that's dangerous to b…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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New Jersey's environmental agency called itself out for destroying two endangered birds' protected habitats while creating one for another species
New Jersey's environmental agency damaged land protected for two endangered bird species while tryi…
Insider Inc.
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Amsterdam banning cruise ships kills 2 birds with one stone: rampant tourism and environmental damage. It's just the latest place to do it, and probably won't be the last.
Amsterdam, Venice, and French Polynesia are among the places that have banned large cruise ships ov…
Kelsey Vlamis
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US researchers jubilant after rediscovering a bird lost to science for 140 years in Papua New Guinea
The black-naped pheasant-pigeon, which lives on an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea, has no…
Bethany Dawson
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The worst bird-flu outbreak in US history is 'wiping out everything in numbers we've never seen before.' Here's what you need to know.
The new, more contagious bird-flu virus, H5N1, has decimated wild-bird populations and contributed …
Bethany Dawson
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This sad vulture has tried twice to take to the skies and flopped both times
The rare cinereous vulture crash-landed near a park in Singapore in December, and failed to take of…
Cheryl Teh
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Endangered California condors reproduced without having sex with males in a rare example of avian 'virgin births'
The births marked the first time asexual reproduction has been observed where a female bird had acc…