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Nursing a repaired nose, Sue Bird has 10 points and 14 assists to lead the Seattle Storm to the WNBA finals with an 82-62 win over the Sacramento Monarchs on Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Animal rescue workers have released about 100 birds that were treated for shock and concussions after crashing into an office building's windows last week.  The birds, cedar waxwings, were released Tuesday at the Honeywell wildlife refuge near Irmo.
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HARLINGEN, Texas -- Once down to about 15, the world's only wild flock of the statuesque whooping crane has continued its comeback, now numbering a record 237 birds in its Texas Coastal Bend wintering ground. U.S.
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Ontario Harper scored a career-high 17 points Thursday night in helping Mississippi State fight off an upset bid with a 53-49 win over Fairfield.
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Though the US Fish and Wildlife Service removed the Tinian monarch from the list of threatened and endangered species earlier this year, it plans to continue to monitor the species&#39; levels on that island.
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By Heath, David  The whooping crane (Grus americana), North America's tallest bird and a species that once seemed doomed to extinction, is showing signs of progress, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials.
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A fossil of a gliding animal shows that mammals experimented with flight around when birds first took to the skies.
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A vulnerable British bird has experienced an extraordinary population revival, figures have shown.
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Although the Sacramento Monarchs' first-round grace was gone, they still had the grit and grind they needed to stay with their biggest rivals. And then Kara Lawson and Nicole Powell provided just enough graceful moments against the Los Angeles Sparks to put the Monarchs on the verge of a return trip to the WNBA finals.
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How did these birds ever win 105 games? Did they have some kind of win-one, get-one deal from the commissioner's office? These Cardinals are playing March baseball in October, and they're one game from sacking up the bats for the winter.
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While leaves tumble from trees this fall, another natural wonder is soaring overhead. Hawks in North and South America are taking to the air as part of a seasonal migration.
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Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird, used both its feathered forelimbs and hind limbs to glide from trees, according to a new analysis of fossils found in the 1800s.
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A rare farmland bird which conservationists thought had almost died out returns to the Scottish Borders.
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Playing aggressive defense, the Sacramento Monarchs took the Los Angeles Sparks out of their game. Yolanda Griffith scored 15 points to lead the Monarchs into the WNBA finals for the second straight season with a 72-58 victory over the Sparks on Saturday night. The Sparks were held to 37 percent shooting for the game and got outrebounded 40-25.
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Facing a set point in a tight tiebreaker in the U.S. Open quarterfinals Thursday night, Novak Djokovic kept dribbling the ball, bouncing it 28 times in all. Eventually, he tossed the ball overhead &#151; and hit a fault. Djokovic cut his total to 13 bounces, hit a 113 mph second serve, and won the point, part of a 6-4, 7-6 (7), 6-1 victory over Carlos Moya to reach a third consecutive Grand Slam semifinal.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--MOSS POINT -- Egrets wheeling in the sky and pelicans foraging in Bennett Bayou on Friday morning incited a smile from Judy Steckler. "Isn't that a beautiful sight?" she said.
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ATHENS - It wasn&#39;t one of the great passes of Sue Bird&#39;s young career. But at this point, it&#39;s clearly the most historic.