Men Try to Smuggle Birds in Pocket, Pack
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, what will four birds in a pocket and three in a fanny pack bring? If border agents notice, a $1,000 fine and maybe worse.  U.S.
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The company is keeping its cards close to the vest.
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It doesn't seem to matter to one puffin waddling over to join another of the birds that his chosen companion is a one-legged, wooden decoy. Puffins love company.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but  other birds of prey are in trouble.
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Spain relies on sun-loving, beer-drinking Britons and Germans to pack its beach resorts every summer, but it is also seeking to lure a quieter sort of tourist -- the birdwatcher.
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Officials investigating the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse are looking at an unlikely culprit: pigeons.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - A Thai man who tried to smuggle into Belgium two small eagles infected with a deadly avian flu virus was undergoing medical tests Sunday, but appeared to be in good health, officials said.
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Federal wildlife officials released a long-range plan Monday for removing a tiny bird that nests on West Coast beaches from Endangered Species Act protections by 2047 with the help of volunteers from the Audubon Society, the Boy Scouts and other nonprofit groups.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but other birds of prey are in trouble.
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Border guards in Belarus said on Wednesday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle 277 parrots into the ex-Soviet state -- aboard a bicycle.
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OISTINS, Barbados -- Some people in this self-proclaimed Land of the Flying Fish now concede that it might have been unwise to make a wandering species the nation's mascot.
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Ducks and geese coated in crude oil were carried to a national wildlife refuge yesterday by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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The RSPB launches a project to halt the decline of the lapwing, a bird traditionally known as the "farmer's friend".
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Some of the flying mammals find their way home by sensing Earth's magnetic field, just like migrating birds, new research suggests.
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By John Biemer, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 18--In their annual migration south for the winter, most birds don't fly commercial.
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A Thai man who tried to smuggle into Belgium two small eagles infected with the deadly bird flu virus was undergoing medical tests Sunday, but appeared to be in good health, officials said.
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FORTESCUE, New Jersey  - A tiny shorebird is edging closer to extinction, threatened by fishermen who destroy its food staple for bait and loved by ornithologists who are drawn from around the world to count it.