Study looks at hardy LI black ducks
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With its great plains of concrete and endless shopping malls, Long Island would seem an unlikely location for wildlife research. Yet this winter a team of waterfowl biologists will follow
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It is one of the world&#39;s oldest questions: Why did the chicken cross the road? It might seem like a &#39;poultry&#39; subject to weigh on the minds of hundreds of scientists, but research published yesterday has brought us a little closer to the answer.
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A sixth swan has tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu at a nature reserve in south-west England, Britain's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said Saturday.
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By JESSE HARLAN ALDERMAN  BOISE, Idaho - More than 1,000 mallard ducks have died along a single creek in southern Idaho, and officials on Wednesday tested tissue samples to find out why.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - In southern China, it doesn't  matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it  walks, wriggles or jumps, it's good enough for the pot.
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Biologists have fought long and sometimes bitterly about how birds evolved -- but a new study published on Thursday suggests that their intellectual battle may have been all in vain.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 14--You could tell from the way the birds were reacting at the backyard feeders yesterday morning that something big was on the way.   The feeders at my rural western Sandusky County creekbottom home were gleaned all but clean.
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U.S. agriculture officials said on   Friday that tests found the H5N1 avian influenza virus in   mallard ducks in Maryland but it appeared to be a   low-pathogenic strain that posed no risk to humans.
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A wild bird which died of avian flu in Hong Kong is being tested for the lethal strain that has killed 32 people in Southeast Asia this year.
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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More than 1,000 mallard ducks have died along a single creek in southern Idaho, and officials on Wednesday tested tissue samples to find out why.
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Three swans found dead on a nature reserve in south-west England have tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, media reports said Thursday.
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 22--SWAN POINT -- A combination of disease and last week's sudden cold snap might have caused the death of about 50,000 white perch in the Potomac River near this Southern Maryland community, state officials said.
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The study raises questions of whether environmental standards are strict enough.
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If it seems quiet in your back yard these days, it&#39;s probably because so many species of birds have flown the coop, bound south on their migratory journeys.
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Mallard ducks in Maryland have   tested positive for bird flu, apparently a common, less   pathogenic strain that poses no risk to humans, the U.S.   Agriculture and Interior departments said on Friday.
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It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.